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…

Thus you see that the solemnizing of a first day to holy uses was not limited to, though first preached by the Church that was at Jerusalem. The Church at Jerusalem was the Mother-church, and not that at. Rome, as some falsely imagine; for from this Church went out the Law and the holy Word of God to the Gentiles. Wherefore it must be supposed that this meeting of the Gentiles on the first day of the Week to break bread, came to them by holy tradition from the Church at Jerusalem, since they were the first that kept the first day as holy unto the Lord their God.

And indeed, they had the best advantage to do it; for they had their Lord in the head of them to back them to it by his presence and preaching thereon.

But we will a little comment upon the Text. Upon the [first day] of the Week. Thus you see the day is nominated, and so is kept alive among the Churches: For in that the day is nominated on which this religious Exercise was performed, it is to be supposed that the Holy Ghost would have it live, and be taken notice of by the Churches that succeed.