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…

They came together [to break bread] to partake of the Supper of the Lord. And what day so fit as the Lords day for this? This was to be the work of that day, to wit, to solemnize ⟨p. 90⟩that Ordinance among themselves, adjoining other solemn Worship thereto, to fill up the day, as the following part of the verse shows. This day therefore was designed for this work, the whole day, for the Text declares it: The first day of the week was set, by them, apart for this work.

They came together [to break bread] to partake of the Supper of the Lord. And what day so fit as the Lords day for this? This was to be the work of that day, to wit, to solemnize ⟨p. 90⟩that Ordinance among themselves, adjoyning other solemn Worship thereto, to fill up the day, as the following part of the verse shews. This day therefore was designed for this work, the whole day, for the Text declares it: The first day of the week was set, by them, apart for this work.

Upon [the] first day; not upon A first day, or upon ONE first day, or upon SUCH a first day; for had he said so, we had had from thence not so strong an argument for our purpose: But when he saith, upon the first day of the week they did it, he insinuates, It was their custom: (also upon one of these, Paul being among them, preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow.) Upon the first day: what, or which first day of this, or that, of the third or fourth week of the month? No, but upon the first day, every first day; for so the Text admits us to judge.

Upon the first day of the Week, [when] the Disciples were come together, supposes a Custom [when] or as they were wont to come together to perform such service among themselves to God: then Paul preached to them, &c.