A26918:524
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.
Dr. Heyli•s own words are these, [Part. 2. p. 13. The first particular passage which did occ••• in holy Scriptur• touching the first day of the week, is that upon that day the Holy Ghost did ⟨p. 169⟩first come down on the Apostles, and that on the same day St. Peter Preached his first Sermon, to the Jews, and Baptized such as believed, there being added to the Church that day 3000 souls] And to prove the day he saith, p. 14. [The rule being this, that on what day soever the second of the Passover did fall, on that also fell the great Feast of Pentecost (as Scaliger de Emend. Temp. l. 2.) So that as often as the Passover did fall on the Sabbath, as this year it did, then Pentecost fell on the Sunday.]
The last part of our Objections are from History; and it is said,
Obj. [Qu. Whether the observation of the first day was not brought into this Island by Antichrist, about 408 or 409 years ago? Roger Hoveden about an. 1202 (above 1200 years after Christ) mentioneth a Council held in Scotland for the initiation or first bringing in that which he calls the Dominical day: see this testimony mentioned by Binius in his Councils, and somewhat enlarged by Matth. Paris the old impression fol. 192, 193. and the last Edition fol. 200 and 201; And how the King of England and the Nobility would not then receive this alteration.—I conceive that in the first Centuries the great Controversy relating to this was about translating the keeping the Passover, which they now call Easter, from the fourteenth day of the first Moon, &c. (under the colour of honouring Christ) to the first day of the Week as the Dominical day; which the Popes first set themselves with great vehemency to introduce—And as the Pope obtained his purpose for one day in a year, so by degrees in some places, came in one day in a