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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.
Cap. 2. li. 4. Theodorus his Consecration on the Lords day is mentioned.
Lib. 4. cap. 5. In the Synod at Herudford the first Canon is that all keep Easter on the Lords day next after the fourteenth Moon of the first Month.
Lib. 5. cap. 22. Ceolfridus sendeth an Epistle to the King of the Picts, in which are these words [Postquam verò Pasha nostrum immolatus est Christus, Diemque nobis Dominicam, quae apud antiqu•t una […] prima Sabbati sive Sabbatorum ⟨p. 177⟩vocatur, gaudio suae Resurrectionis fecit esse solennem; ita hanc nunc Apostolica traditio festis Paschalibus inseruit.] that is, [But when Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us, and by the Joy of his Resurrection made the Lords day, which by the Ancients was called one or the first of the Sabbath or Sabbaths, to be a solemn day to us; so now Apostolical Tradition hath engrafted it into the Paschal Festivals:] Where you see that the Lords day settled as solemn by the Resurrection, he taketh for uncontroverted, but the grafting it into the Easter Festivals, he ascribeth to Apostolical Tradition, meaning St. Peters.
Lib. 5. cap. 22. Ceolfridus sendeth an Epistle to the King of the Picts, in which are these words [Postquam verò Pas•ha nostrum immolatus est Christus, Diemque nobis Dominicam, quae apud antiqu•t una 〈…〉 prima Sabbati sive Sabbatorum ⟨p. 177⟩vocatur, gaudio suae Resurrectionis fecit esse solennem; ita hanc nunc Apostolica traditio festis Paschalibus inseruit.] that is, [But when Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us, and by the Joy of his Resurrection made the Lords day, which by the Ancients was called one or the first of the Sabbath or Sabbaths, to be a solemn day to us; so now Apostolical Tradition hath ingraffed it into the Paschal Festivals:] Where you see that the Lords day settled as solemn by the Resurrection, he taketh for uncontroverted, but the graffing it into the Easter Festivals, he ascribeth to Apostolical Tradition, meaning St. Peters.