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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.
2. Your Historical observations are utterly mistaken. The observation of the Lords day was in all the Churches past all Controversy from the beginning, while the time of Easter was in Controversy, as I have proved. Why would you not name those Churches in East and West (which I never read or heard of) yea or that person, that was for the seventh day alone? I am confident because you could not do it. Indeed all Churches called the seventh day alone by the old name Sabbath, while they maintained the Sabbath to be ceased; But under the name of the Lords day, the first was solemnly observed.
2. Your Historical observations are utterly mistaken. The observation of the Lords day was in all the Churches past all Controversie from the beginning, while the time of Easter was in Controversie, as I have proved. Why would you not name those Churches in East and West (which I never read or heard of) yea or that person, that was for the seventh day alone? I am confident because you could not do it. Indeed all Churches called the seventh day alone by the old name Sabbath, while they maintained the Sabbath to be ceased; But under the name of the Lords day, the first was solemnly observed.
3. In Hoveden and Mat. Paris, there is not a word of what you say; so much do you mis-cite History. There is indeed an. 1201. (which as I remember is Hoveden's last) the story that many Authors talk of, and Heylin mentioneth, of ⟨p. 174⟩one that sound a Letter pretended from Heaven upon the Altar, reproving the crying sins of the times, and especially the profanation of the Lords day, and requiring them to keep it strictly for the time to come: which was so far from being the initiation of the Lords day, that it was about 1167 years after it. And how could men pretend such a Divine reproof for such a sin, if the day not been received before? I pray read Heylins History against us, which will set you righter in the matter of fact. And there is no mention of any such Council as you talk of, for the initiation of the Lords day, nor any resistance of the Kings, or Scots: There is nothing of all this in Hoveden or Mat. Paris.