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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
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.
1. Christs Resurrection laid the foundation, or gave the Cause; as Gods ceasing from his works did of the Sabbath. 2. Christs appearing to them assembled on that day, began the actual separation. 3. The Holy Ghost coming down on them, on that day, did more notably sanctify it. 4. The Holy Ghost as an infallible spirit in them, did cause them to make a public settlement of that day in all the Churches, which was the full and actual establishment. 5. This settlement is fully proved de facto in Scripture and infallible history. 6. And that there are promises and threatenings, to the obeyers and rejecters, of Christs commands, (whom the Father commanded us to hear, and who is the great Prophet of the Church,) I hope you believe. Rev. 20. 14. Happy are they who do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, &c. Heb. 12. 25. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh; For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more, &c. Act. 3. 23. It shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people: 1 Joh. 4. 6. We are of God: He that knoweth God heareth us: he that is not of God, heareth not us: Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of Error.
1. Christs Resurrection laid the foundation, or gave the Cause; as Gods ceasing from his works did of the Sabbath. 2. Christs appearing to them assembled on that day, began the actual separation. 3. The Holy Ghost coming down on them, on that day, did more notably sanctifie it. 4. The Holy Ghost as an infallible spirit in them, did cause them to make a publick settlement of that day in all the Churches, which was the full and actual establishment. 5. This settlement is fully proved de facto in Scripture and infallible history. 6. And that there are promises and threatnings, to the obeyers and rejecters, of Christs commands, (whom the Father commanded us to hear, and who is the great Prophet of the Church,) I hope you believe. Rev. 20. 14. Happy are they who do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, &c.