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The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…
The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
The Divine Appointment of the LORDS DAY, proved, as a separated Day… › Chapter 5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Two are worthy the observation for the Reasons of them. 1. A Law of Cl•tharius King of ⟨p. 46⟩France, forbidding servile labours on the Lords day [Because the Law forbids it, and the holy Scripture wholly contradicteth it.] 2. A Constitution of the Emperor Leo Philosophus, to the same purpose [Secundum quod Spiritui sancto ab ipsoque institutis Apostolis placuit; As it pleased the Holy Ghost and the Apostles instructed by him.] You see that then Christian Princes judged the Lords day to be of Divine Institution. Yea, to these he addeth two more Princes of the same mind, confessing that Leo was himself a Scholar, and Charles the Great had as Learned men about him, as the times then bred, and yet were thus persuaded of the day; yea, and that many Miracles were pretended in confirmation of it; yet he affirmeth, that the Church and the most learned men in it were of another mind. Let us hear his proofs.
Two are worthy the observation for the Reasons of them. 1. A Law of Cl•tharius King of ⟨p. 46⟩France, forbidding servile labours on the Lords day [Because the Law forbids it, and the holy Scripture wholly contradicteth it.] 2. A Constitution of the Emperour Leo Philosophus, to the same purpose [Secundum quod Spiritui sancto ab ipsoque institutis Apostolis placuit; As it pleased the Holy Ghost and the Apostles instructed by him.] You see that then Christian Princes judged the Lords day to be of Divine Institution. Yea, to these he addeth two more Princes of the same mind, confessing that Leo was himself a Scholar, and Charles the Great had as Learned men about him, as the times then bred, and yet were thus perswaded of the day; yea, and that many Miracles were pretended in confirmation of it; yet he affirmeth, that the Church and the most learned men in it were of another mind. Let us hear his proofs.
1. Saith he, Isidore a Bishop of Seville makes it an Apostolical Sanction only, no Divine Commandment: a day designed by the Apostles, for Religious Exercises in honour of our Saviours resurrection; and it was called the Lords day therefore: to this end and purpose, that resting in the same from all earthly acts and the temptations of the world, we might intend Gods holy Worship, giving this day due honour for the hope of the resurrection which we have therein. The same verbatim is repeated by Beds l. de Offic. and by Raban. Maurus l. de inst. Chr. l. 2. c. 24. and by Alcuinus de Die Offic. c. 24. which plainly shows, that all these took it only for an Apostolical usage, &c.