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2. But to clear this past all rational doubting, we find in all the writings of the ancients, and history of the Church, that all the Churches through the world unanimously observed the Lords day as instituted by Christ or the Holy Ghost in the Apostles; none ever questioning or contradicting it, that ever I read of. He that hath read the writings of the Ancients, and denieth this, is unworthy to be disputed with. The practice of the universal Church is a full exposition of the fore-cited Scriptures; and though it be no Law to us it self, yet is it a full discovery of the fact (telling us what was the primitive practice) and so a discovery of the Law. And shall any private ignorant man, come in alter one thousand six hundred and twenty six years, and say the Apostles and all the Churches in the world have been deceived till this day, ⟨p. 92⟩and we must rectify the mistake? Shall these fellows come in at the end of the world, and call the Apostles and all the Churches of all ages Puritans, for keeping holy the Lords day? Or will any but a brain-sick person hearken to such shameless men as these?

2. But to clear this past all rational doubting, we find in all the writings of the antients, and historie of the Church, that all the Churches through the world unanimously observed the Lords day as instituted by Christ or the Holy Ghost in the Apostles; none ever questioning or contradicting it, that ever I read of. He that hath read the writings of the Antients, and denyeth this, is unworthy to be disputed with. The practice of the universal Church is a full exposition of the fore-cited Scriptures; and though it be no Law to us it self, yet is it a full discovery of the fact (telling us what was the primitive practice) and so a discovery of the Law. And shall any private ignorant man, come in alter one thousand six hundred and twenty six years, and say the Apostles and all the Churches in the world have been deceived till this day, ⟨p. 92⟩and we must rectifie the mistake? Shall these fellows come in at the end of the world, and call the Apostles and all the Churches of all ages Puritanes, for keeping holy the Lords day? Or will any but a brain-sick person hearken to such shameless men as these?