Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…

The Lords day: Every day, say some, is the Lords day. Indeed this for discourse-sake may be granted▪ but strictly, no day can so properly by called the Lords day, as this First day of the week; for that no day of the Week or of the Year has those badges of the Lords glory upon it, nor such divine Grace put upon it us has the First day of the Week. This we have already made appear in part, and shall make appear much more before we have done therewith.

There is nothing, as I know of, that bears this title but the Lords Supper, and this day, 1 Cor. 11, 20. Rev. 1. 10. And since Christians count it an abuse to allegorize the first, let them also be ashamed to santasticalize the last: The Lords ⟨p. 75⟩day is doubtless the day in which he rose from the dead. To be sure it is not the old Seventh day; for from the day that he arose, to the end of the Bible, we find not that he did hang so much as one twist of glory upon that; but this day is beautified with glory upon glory, and that both by the Father and the Son; by the Prophets and those that were raised from the dead thereon; therefore THIS day must be more than the rest.

But we are as yet but upon divine Intimations, drawn from such Texts which, if candidly considered, do very much smile upon this great truth; namely, that the First day of the week is to be accounted the Christian Sabbath, or Holy day for Divine Worship in the Churches of the Saints. And now I come to the Texts that are more express.