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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. I have showed you already how and why the Eastern Christians kept the Sabbath: 1. They kept it not as a Sabbath, but only met on that day as they did on the fourth and the sixth days, (Wednesdays and Fridays) as it is used in England to this day. And for the most part they Celebrated not the Lords Supper on that day. And they abhorred the keeping it as a day of Rest.
2. I have shewed you already how and why the Eastern Christians kept the Sabbath: 1. They kept it not as a Sabbath, but only met on that day as they did on the fourth and the sixth dayes, (Wednesdayes and Fridayes) as it is used in England to this day. And for the most part they Celebrated not the Lords Supper on that day. And they abhorred the keeping it as a day of Rest.
2. They met on that day for all these Reasons. 1. Because having been used in the beginning to meet every day in the Week (when they had all things common, and were to show the power of the Evangelical Doctrine to the height, Act. 2. 44, 45, 46. & 4. 33, 34, 35.) as they found cause to retrieve their community, so did they to meet seldomer, and yet not so seldom as ⟨p. 222⟩once a Week: And therefore as we now keep other meetings for Lectures and Prayers, besides the Lords day, so did they then on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. 2. Because the Conversion of the Jews was a great part of their work and hope: And therefore to win them, they would with Paul become Jews, that is, not affect an unnecessary distance, but come as near them as Lawfully they could. 3. Because Converted Jews were no small part of the Eastern Churches: who could not easily be quite brought off from Jewish Customs; And the rest were unwilling to offend them, being taught not to despise the weak that observed meats and days,