The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

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 ⟨p. 170⟩week, the first day to be observed, and the seventh day by one of the Popes turned from a Festival […] Fast, whilst many of the Eastern and some of the Western Churches did still retain withal the observation of the seventh-day Sabbath together with the first day, and others of the Churches in the East and West kept only to the seventh day as the Christian Sabbath, &c.

Obj. [Qu. Whether the observation of the first day was not brought into this Island by Antichrist, about 408 or 409 years agoe? 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 Controversie 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