The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

Where note, 1. That by a stated day, he can mean no other than the Lords day, as the consent of all other History will prove. 2. That this is much like the testimonies of Justin and Tertullian, and (supposing what they say of the use of Reading the Scripture, and Instructing the Church) it showeth that their chief work on that day, was the Praises of God for our Redemption by Christ, and the celebration of the Lords Supper; and the Disciplinary exercises of Covenanters thereto belonging. 3. That they had at that time where Pliny was two meetings that day, that is, they went home, and came again to their Feast of Love, in the Evening. (Which, no doubt, was varied, as several times, and places, and occasions required; sometimes departing and coming again, and sometimes staying together all day.) 4. That this Epistle of Pliny was written in Trajans days, and it is supposed in his second year: And Trajan was Emperor the year that St. John the Apostle died, if not a year before; so that it is the Churches custom in the end of the Apostles days, which Pliny here writeth of. 5. That he had the fullest testimony of what he wrote, it being the consent of the Christians whom he, as Judge, examined; even of the timorous that denied their Religion, as well as of the rest. And many of them upon his prohibition forbore these ⟨p. 49⟩meetings. 6. And the number of them he telleth Trajan in City and Country was great, of persons of all degrees and ranks.

Where note, 1. That by a stated day, he can mean no other than the Lords day, as the consent of all other History will prove. 2. That this is much like the testimonies of Justin and Tertullian, and (supposing what they say of the use of Reading the Scripture, and Instructing the Church) it sheweth that their chief work on that day, was the Praises of God for our Redemption by Christ, and the celebration of the Lords Supper; and the Disciplinary exercises of Covenanters thereto belonging. 3. That they had at that time where Pliny was two meetings that day, that is, they went home, and came again to their Feast of Love, in the Evening. (Which, no doubt, was varied, as several times, and places, and occasions required; sometimes departing and coming again, and sometimes staying together all day.) 4. That this Epistle of Pliny was written in Trajans dayes, and it is supposed in his second year: And Trajan was Emperour the year that St. John the Apostle died, if not a year before; so that it is the Churches custom in the end of the Apostles dayes, which Pliny here writeth of. 5. That he had the fullest testimony of what he wrote, it being the consent of the Christians whom he, as Judge, examined; even of the timorous that denyed their Religion, as well as of the rest. And many of them upon his prohibition forbore these