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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.
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.
3. And as for the Abassians keeping the Sabbath, Its true, they keep that day in some sort: But it is as true, that they use Circumcision, and many other Jewish Ceremonies; besides oft Baptizings; And that they profess not to use these as the Jews do, but only as ancient Customs, and as Paul did while he complied with them, using the outward action for other ends than Judaizers do. And the rather because they think their Emperors descended from Solomon. But the Lords day they keep on the same account as other Christians. And if this instance make any thing for Sabbatizing, it will make as much for Circumcising, and other Jewish rites, but nothing against the Sanctifying of the Lords day.
3. And as for the Abassians keeping the Sabbath, Its true, they keep that day in some sort: But it is as true, that they use Circumcision, and many other Jewish Ceremonies; besides oft Baptizings; And that they profess not to use these as the Jews do, but only as ancient Customes, and as Paul did while he complyed with them, using the outward action for other ends than Judaizers do. And the rather because they think their Emperours descended from Solomon. But the Lords day they keep on the same account as other Christians. And if this instance make any thing for Sabbatizing, it will make as much for Circumcising, and other Jewish rites, but nothing against the Sanctifying of the Lords day.