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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.
And after in the same Epistle [Qui tertia post immolationem suae passionis die resurgens à mortuis, hanc dominicam vocari, & in eâ nos annuatim Paschalia ejusdem Resurrectionis voluit festa celebrare;] that is, [Christ rising from the dead, the third day after the Sacrifice of his passion, would have this called the Lords day, and would have us on it to Celebrate the Paschal Feast of his Resurrection.] The like is after again in that Epistle, with this addition, that we hold that our own Resurrection will be on the Lords day. By this Epistle the King of the Picts was brought to Conformity in that day and made Laws for it: And Cap. 23. The Scots of Hy who stood out so long, were brought to it by the persuasion of Eigbertus. Judge now of your Historical note of England.
And after in the same Epistle [Qui tertia post immolationem suae passionis die resurgens à mortuis, hanc dominicam vocari, & in eâ nos annuatim Paschalia ejusdem Resurrectionis voluit festa celebrare;] that is, [Christ rising from the dead, the third day after the Sacrifice of his passion, would have this called the Lords day, and would have us on it to Celebrate the Paschal Feast of his Resurrection.] The like is after again in that Epistle, with this addition, that we hold that our own Resurrection will be on the Lords day. By this Epistle the King of the Picts was brought to Conformity in that day and made Laws for it: And Cap. 23. The Scots of Hy who stood out so long, were brought to it by the perswasion of Eigbertus. Judge now of your Historical note of England.
But that you may see more of this, you may Read Bede's mind that lived in England in other of his Works. On Act 20. [In una Sabbathi eum convenissemus ad fraugendum p•nem; id est, ⟨p. 178⟩Die Dominico qui est primus a Sabbate, cum ad mysteria celebrandae Congreg•ti essemus;] that is, [On the Lords day, which is the first from the Sabbath, when we were Congregated to Celebrate the Mysteries]—And he thinks it called, The Lords day, because it is the Remembrance of the Lords Resurrection or ours.