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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 7
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.
The Text of Gal. 4. 10. is of the same sense with Col. 2. 16. against the Jews Sabbath, and therefore needeth no other defence.
And I would have you consider, whether as Christs Resurrection was the foundation of the Lords day; so Christs lying dead and buried in a Grave on the seventh day Sabbath, was not a ⟨p. 85⟩fundamental abrogation of it: I say not the Actual and plenary abrogation: For it was the Command of Christ by his Word, Spirit, or both to the Apostles before proved, which fully made the change: But as the Resurrection was the Ground of the new day so his Burial seemeth to intimate, that the day with all the Jewish Law which it was the symbolical profession of, lay dead and buried with him. Sure I am that he saith, when the Bridegroom is taken from them, then shall they fast and mourn; but he was most notably taken from them, when he lay dead in the Grave; And if they must fast and mourn that day, they could not keep it as a Sabbath, which was a day of joy Therefore as by death he overcame him that had the power of death, Heb. 2. 14. and as he nailed the hand-writing of Ordinances to his Cross; so he buried the Sabbath in his Grave, by lying buried on that day.
And therefore the Western Churches, who had fewer Jews among them, did fast on the Sabbath day, to show the change that Christs burial intimated: Though the Eastern Churches did not, lest they should offend the Jews.
And therefore the Western Churches, who had fewer Jews among them, did fast on the Sabbath day, to shew the change that Christs burial intimated: Though the Eastern Churches did not, lest they should offend the Jews.