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 work now to be done, was, as you see, to bestow their charity upon the Poor; yea, to provide for time to come: And I say, it must be collected upon the first day of the week. Upon THE first day; not A first day, as signifying one or two, but upon THE first day, even every first day; for so your ancient Bibles have it; also our later must be so understood, or else Paul had left them to whom he did write, utterly at a loss. For if he intended not every first day, and yet did not specify a particular one, it could hardly even a been understood which first day he meant: But we need not ⟨p. 95⟩stand upon this: This work was a work for A first day, for EVERY first day of the week.

The work now to be done, was, as you see, to bestow their charity upon the Poor; yea, to provide for time to come: And I say, it must be collected upon the first day of the week. Upon THE first day; not A first day, as signifying one or two, but upon THE first day, even every first day; for so your ancient Bibles have it; also our later must be so understood, or else Paul had left them to whom he did write, utterly at a loss. For if he intended not every first day, and yet did not specifie a particular one, it could hardly even a been understood which first day he meant: But we need not ⟨p. 95⟩stand upon this: This work was a work for A first day, for EVERY first day of the week.

Note again that we have this duty here commanded and enforced by an Apostolical Order: I have given order, saith Paul, for this; and his Orders, as he saith in another place, are the commandments of the Lord: you have it in the same Epistle, chap. 14. vers. 37.