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…

Secondly, On the next first day following the Church was within again; that is, congregated to wait upon their Lord. And John so relates the matter, as to give us to ⟨p. 77⟩understand that they were not so assembled together again till then: After eight days, saith he, again the Disciples were within; clearly concluding, that they were not so on the days that were between, no not on the old Seventh day.

Now why should the Holy Ghost thus precisely speak of their assembling together upon the first day, if not to confirm us in this, that the Lord had chosen that day for the new Sabbath of his Church? Surely the Apostles knew what they did in their meeting together upon that day; yea, and the Lord Jesus also; for that he used SO to visit them when SO assembled, made his practice a Law unto them: For Practice is enough for us New Testament Saints, specially when the Lord Jesus himself is in the head of that practice, and that after he rose from the dead.

Perhaps some may stumble at the word [after] after eight days; but ⟨p. 78⟩the meaning is, at the conclusion of the eighth day, or when they had spent in a manner the whole of their Sabbath in waiting upon their Lord, then in comes their Lord, and finisheth that their days service to him with confirming of Thomas's faith, and by letting drop other most heavenly treasure among them. Christ said, he must lie three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth, yet 'tis evident, that he rose the third day, 1 Cor. 15. 4.