A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

But what saith the Holy-Ghost now to this question? To pass by the fourth Commandment, at this time, the letter of it, and the equity and reason of a seventh day; the advantage of reason why there should be no less under the Gospel, and such like; I shall only now say these two things. 1. It is plain in Scripture that (de facto) the Apostles and Churches used to meet for holy Communion in Gods worship on the Lords day: And consequently that this was appointed by the Apostles, or immediately by Christ himself, there being then no other that pretended to any such authority: and that Apostolical allowance no man questioneth. The Apostles then having the extraordinary gift of the Spirit, by which they were enabled infallibly to make known the will of God, and being commissioned as well as enabled here unto; as their writing of the holy Scriptures, so their constitutions for the ordering of the Church, being the effects of that Authority received from Christ, and that Ability given them by the Spirit, are Divine, and principally the acts of Christ and the Holy Ghost, whose agents the Apostles were. Now that the first Churches did by their appointment, observe the Lords day for holy actions, is apparent. As Christ first laid the ground-work by R• sing ⟨p. 91⟩on that day, so he began that very day to preach unto Mary the comfortable doctrine of his Ascension, in words that deserve to be written in gold, or rather in the deepest room of every true Believers heart: [John 20. 17. Go to my Brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God and your God]; The first Sermon that ever was preached on a Lords day, even on the first Lords day by Christ himself, even to a beloved penitent woman, whom he chose to be as it were his Apostle to his Apostles, to deliver them this Message as from him.

But what saith the Holy-Ghost now to this question? To pass by the fourth Commandement, at this time, the letter of it, and the equity and reason of a seventh day; the advantage of reason why there should be no less under the Gospel, and such like; I shall only now say these two things. 1. It is plain in Scripture that (de facto) the Apostles and Churches used to meet for holy Communion in Gods worship on the Lords day: And consequently that this was appointed by the Apostles, or immediately by Christ himself, there being then no other that pretended to any such authority: and that Apostolical allowance no man questioneth. The Apostles then having the extraordinary gift of the Spirit, by which they were enabled infallibly to make known the will of God, and being commissioned as well as enabled here unto; as their writing of the holy Scriptures, so their constitutions for the ordering of the Church, being the effects of that Authority received from Christ, and that Ability given them by the Spirit, are Divine, and principally the acts of Christ and the Holy Ghost, whose agents the Apostles were. Now that the first Churches did by their appointment, observe the Lords day for holy actions, is apparent. As Christ first laid the ground-work by R sing