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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.
8. How many years together the Churches had been in possession, and consequently in the undoubted knowledge, of the true established day of holy Worship, before a word of the New Testament was Written. And therefore that it was not written to be the first enacting of this day or change; but for other uses.
9. And yet how much evidence of the fact there is in the Scripture it self, that really such a day was used for the ordinary Church-assemblies, as a peculiar separated day; even by the Common order of the Apostles in the Churches, as 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2. speaks.
10. And how impossible it is that all the Churches in the World should from their beginning keep this as the separated day, even by the Apostles and from their times, if it had not been so ordered by them indeed. And whether it be possible that in no age near the original hereof, no Pastor, no Christian, no Heretic, no Enemy would have detected the fraud or common ⟨p. 168⟩Error, or once have written, that this day was not separated or used by the Apostles or Apostolical Churches; no nor any one (that I know of, that denied not the Resurrection) ever to have scrupled or opposed the day.
10. And how impossible it is that all the Churches in the World should from their beginning keep this as the separated day, even by the Apostles and from their times, if it had not been so ordered by them indeed. And whether it be possible that in no age neer the original hereof, no Pastor, no Christian, no Heretick, no Enemy would have detected the fraud or common