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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.
Here you see that it was past Controversy with them that the Lords day must be Celebrated in memorial of Christs Resurrection, and the Scots kept not Easter on any other Week day; And that they had not been like Christians, if they had not owned and kept the Lords day; only they had not skill enough in Calculating the times, so as to know when the true Anniversary Lords day came about, but kept Easter on a wrong Lords day.
Here you see that it was past Controversie with them that the Lords day must be Celebrated in memorial of Christs Resurrection, and the Scots kept not Easter on any other Week day; And that they had not been like Christians, if they had not owned and kept the Lords day; only they had not skill enough in Calculating the times, so as to know when the true Anniversary Lords day came about, but kept Easter on a wrong Lords day.
The same he saith again in the praise of F•nan lib. 3. cap. 17. that though he kept not Easter at the due time, yet he did not, as some falsely think, keep it on any week day in the fourteenth Moon ⟨p. 176⟩with the Jews; but he always kept it on the Lords day, from the fourteenth Moon to the twentieth, because of the Belief of the Lords Resurrection, which the Church truly believed was on the first day of the week for the hope of our Resurrection, and which (they believed) will fall out on the same first day, of the week, which is now called the Lords day.
The same he saith again in the praise of F•nan lib. 3. cap. 17. that though he kept not Easter at the due time, yet he did not, as some fals•y think, keep it on any week day in the fourteenth Moon ⟨p. 176⟩with the Jews; but he alwayes kept it on the Lords day, from the fourteenth Moon to the twentieth, because of the Belief of the Lords Resurrection, which the Church truly believed was on the first day of the week for the hope of our Resurrection, and which (they believed) will fall out on the same first day, of the week, which is now called the Lords day.