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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 13
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.
V. The Devil hath here been a great Undoer by Overdoing: When he knew not how else to cast out the holy observation of the Lords day, with zealous people he found out the trick of devising so many days called Holy days to set up by it, that the people might perceive that the observation of them all as holy, was never to be expected. And so the Lords day was jumbled in the heap of holy days, and all turned into Ceremony, by the Papists and too many other Churches in the World. Which became Calvins temptation (as his own words make plain) to think too meanly of the Lords day with the rest.
V. The Devil h•th here been a great Vndoer by Overdoing: When he knew not how else to cast out the holy observation of the Lords day, with zealous people he found out the trick of devising so many dayes called Holy dayes to set up by it, that the people might perceive that the observation of them all as holy, was never to be expected. And so the Lords day was jumbled in the heap of holy dayes, and all turned into Ceremony, by the Papists and too many other Churches in the World. Which became Calvins temptation (as his own words make plain) to think too meanly of the Lords day with the rest.
VI. In the lawful observation of days, it is most orderly to do as the Churches do which we live among and are to join with.
VI. In the lawful observation of daies, it is most orderly to do as the Churches do which we live among and are to joine with.
VII. But if Church tyranny would overwhelm any place with over-numerous days (or Ceremonies which are (singly considered) lawful, we should do nothing needlessly to countenance and encourage such usurpation.