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The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
Part 2 › Chapter 7: The means of making known all this infallibly to us.
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 consider also, that the Lords day was settled, and constantly used in solemn worship by the Churches, many and many years before any part of the New Testament was written; and above threescore years before it was finished. And when the Churches had so many years been in public possession of it, who would require that the Scriptures should after all, make a Law to institute that which was instituted so long ago.
And consider also, that the Lords day was settled, and constantly used in solemn worship by the Churches, many and many years before any part of the New Testament was written; and above threescore years before it was finished. And when the Churches had so many years been in publick possession of it, who would require that the Scriptures should after all, make a Law to institute that which was instituted so long ago.
If you say, that it might have declared the institution, I answer, so it hath, as I have showed; there needing no other declaration, but 1. Christs commission to the Apostles to order the Church, and declare his commands. 2. And his promise of infallible guidance therein. 3. And the history of the Churches order and practice, to show de facto, what they did: And that history need not be written in Scripture for the Churches that then were; no more than we need a revelation from Heaven to tell us that the Lords day is kept in ⟨p. 131⟩England: And sure the next Age needed no supernatural testimony of it: and therefore neither do we: But yet it is occasionally oft intimated or expressed in the Scripture, though on the by, as that which was no further necessary.
If you say, that it might have declared the institution, I answer, so it hath, as I have shewed; there needing no other declaration, but 1. Christs commission to the Apostles to order the Church, and declare his commands. 2. And his promise of infallible guidance therein. 3. And the history of the Churches order and practice, to shew de facto, what they did: And that history need not be written in Scripture for the Churches that then were; no more than we need a revelation from Heaven to tell us thas the Lords day is kept in