The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Almighty God will have himself worshipped, not only in a private manner, by private Persons and Families; but also in a more public sort, of all the godly joined together in a visible Church: that by this means he may be known not only to be the God and Lord of every singular Person; but also of the Creatures of the whole universal World.

ALmighty God will have himself worshipped, not only in a private manner, by private Persons and Families; but also in a more publick sort, of all the godly joyned together in a visible Church: that by this means he may be known not only to be the God and Lord of every singular Person; but also of the Creatures of the whole universal World.

Quest. But why do not we Christians, under the New, keep the Sabbath on the ⟨p. 223⟩same seventh day, whereon it was kept under the Old Testament?

I answer: because that our Lord Jesus (who is the^† Lord of the Sabbath, and whom the Law it self commands us to hear) did alter it from that seventh day, to this first day of the Week, whereon we keep the Sabbath. For the holy Evangelist notes: that our Lord came into the midst of the holy Assembly, on the two first days of the two Weeks immediately following his Resurrection, and then blessed the Church,² breathed on the Apostles the Holy Ghost, and gave them the ministerial keys, and power of binding and remitting sins. And so it is most probable he did in a solemn manner every first-day of the week, during the forty days he continued on earth, between his Resurrection and Ascension (for the fiftieth day after, being the first day of the week, the Apostles were assembled) during which time he gave Commandments unto the Apostles, and