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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Object. But the ancient Churches did not keep that day as a Sabbath, but only as a day for public worship.
Object. But the antient Churches did not keep that day as a Sabbath, but only as a day for publick worship.
Answ. We will not stick with you for the name: We urge you not to call it the Sabbath, (though the Ancients sometimes did so: See our Homilies of the Place and Time of Prayer) if you will call it as Scripture and the Churches did, by the name of the Lords day. And it was then the custom of the Churches, to spend almost all the day in public Worship and Holy Communion, and therefore they had but little time for any private duties that day. And yet (though the private practises of particular persons on that day be little mentioned in Church-history) no man can prove that they used to spend any remaining hours of that day as common time in common business. So that to quarrel against the holy observation of the Lords day, is but to quarrel with the Holy Ghost and the Apostles, and all the Churches of all ages since, and with the happyest season for the worshipping of God, and seeking our own and other mens edification.
Answ. We will not stick with you for the name: We urge you not to call it the Sabbath, (though the Antients sometimes did so: See our Homilies of the Place and Time of Prayer) if you will call it as Scripture and the Churches did, by the name of the Lords day. And it was then the custom of the Churches, to spend almost all the day in publick Worship and Holy Communion, and therefore they had but little time for any private duties that day. And yet (though the private practises of particular persons on that day be little mentioned in Church-history) no man can prove that they used to spend any remaining hours of that day as common time in common business. So that to quarrel against the holy observation of the Lords day, is but to quarrel with the Holy Ghost and the Apostles, and all the Churches of all ages since, and with the happyest season for the worshipping of God, and seeking our own and other mens edification.