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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.
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.
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 Hovedens 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 prophanation 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.
4. But what if England had been ignorant of the Lords day till then (which is utterly untrue) it followeth not that they kept the Sabbath on the seventh day. Nor would a Barbarous remote corner of the World, prejudice the testimony of all Christs Churches in every age.