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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.
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 ⟨p. 168⟩Errour, 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 denyed not the Resurrection) ever to have scrupled or opposed the day.
11. Whether they that can reject such Historical evidence as this is, do not unwittingly cast away the holy Scriptures, what zeal soever they pretend or have for their honour and perfection.
12. Whether they that can reject all this evidence, and yet can find in the second Commandment, the prohibition of all forms of Prayer, Sermons, Catechisms, & all modal inventions of men, as Images, if not Idols, are without partiality, or do not walk as men, by very different measures; and partial conceptions.