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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.
Athanasius was one that was for meeting on the Sabbath: And yet writeth his Book de Sab. & Circum. purposely to prove that the Sabbath is ceased with Circumcision as a Shadow, and that now the Lords day is the sanctified day. And the like he hath most expressly in Homil. de Semente, as is cited before, saying that, The Master being come, the Usher was out of use; and the Sun being risen the Lamps are darkened.
Athanasius was one that was for meeting on the Sabbath: And yet writeth his Book de Sab. & Circum. purposely to prove that the Sabbath is ceased with Circumcision as a Shadow, and that now the Lords day is the sanctified day. And the like he hath most expresly in Homil. de Semente, as is cited before, saying that, The Master being come, the Vsher was out of use; and the Sun being risen the Lamps are darkened.
Basil Ep. 74. Writeth against Apollinaris for holding that after the Resurrection, we should keep Sabbaths, and Judaize•; As if that were the perfection to which Christ would restore men.
See Greg. Nazianz. Orat. 43. And Chrysoft. Hom. 19. in Mat. 12. against the use of the Sabbath. Cyril. Hieros. cat. 4. & Epiphan. against the Nazaraei, condemn them for keeping the Sabbath and Circumcision, though withal they kept the Lords day. The same doth Epiphanius li. 1. Haer. 30. n• 2. and before him Eusebius Hist. li. 3. say of the Ebionites. Augustine oft telleth us, that the observation or keeping of the seventh day Sabbath is ceased, and not to be done by Christians. Qu. ex. N. Test. 69. Ad Bonif. l. 3. Contr. Faust. Manich. li. 6. c. 4. De Genes. ad lit. l. 4. c. 13. de spir. & lit. c. 14. de util. Cred. c. 3.