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

Answ. Though I answered this briefly before, I now give you this fuller answer: I. It is but few things that come under this charge, viz. the Unction, white Garment, with the taste of Milk and Honey at Baptism, Adoration towards the East, and that standing; and not kneeling on the ⟨p. 48⟩[…] ⟨p. 49⟩[…] ⟨p. 50⟩Lords days, and the Anniversary Observation of Easter and Whitsuntide: And the last is but the keeping of one or two Lords days in the year with some note of distinction from the rest, so far as there was any agreement in it. 2. That these are not usually by the Ancients called Apostolical Traditions, but Customs of the Universal Church: 3. That when they are called Traditions from the Apostles, it is not with any assertion that the Apostles instituted them, but that they are supposed to be from their times, because their Original is not known. 4. That the Ancients join not the Lords day with these, but take the Lords day for an Apostolical institution written in Scripture, though the universal practice of all Churches fuller deliver the certain History of it: But the rest they take for unwritten Customs, as distinct from Scripture Ordinances. (As Epiphanius fully showeth.) 5. That most Christians are agreed, that if these later could be proved Apostolical Institutions for the Church universal, it would be our duty to use them, though they were not in Scripture. So that we reject them only for want of such proof: But the proof of the Lords days separation being far better (by concurrence of Scripture and all ancient History) it followeth not that we must doubt of that which hath full and certain proof, because we must doubt of that which wants it. 6. And if it were necessary that they stood or fell together (as it is not) it were necessary that we did receive those three or four Ceremonies, for the sake of the Lords day, which •ath so great evidence, rather than that we cast ⟨p. 51⟩off the Lords day, because of these Ceremonies. Not only because there is more Good in the Lords d•y, than there is evil to be any way suspected by a doubter in these Ceremonies; but especially because the Evidence for the day is so great, that if the said Ceremonies had but the same, they were undoubtedly of Divine authority or institution. In a word, I have showed you somewhat of the evidence for the Lords day;