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, breaking of bread, was the work, the work that by general consent was agreed to be by the Churches of the Gentiles, performed upon the first day of the week. I say, by the Churches; for I doubt not but that the practice here, was also the practice of the rest of the Gentile-Churches▪ ⟨p. 92⟩even as it had been before the practice of the Church at Jerusalem: For this practice now did become universal, and so this Text implies; for he speaks here universally of the practice of all Disciples as such, though he limits Paul preaching to that Church with whom he at present personally was. Upon the first day of the week, when the Disciples were come together to break bread, Paul being at that time at Troas, preached to them on that day.

Thus then you see how the Gentile-Churches did use to break bread, not on the old Sabbath, but on the first day of the week. And, I say, they had it from the Church of Jerusalem, where the Apostles were first seated, and beheld the way of their Lord with their eyes.

Now, I say, since we have so ample an example, not only of the Church at Jerusalem, but also of the Churches of the Gentiles, for the keeping of the first day to the Lord, ⟨p. 93⟩and that as countenanced by Christ and his Apostles, we should not be afraid to tread in their steps, for their practice is the same with Law and Commandment. But

Now, I say, since we have so ample an example, not onely of the Church at Jerusalem, but also of the Churches of the Gentiles, for the keeping of the first day to the Lord, ⟨p. 93⟩