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…

Why, waiting upon God in the way of his appointments, opens, and makes fre•, the heart to the Poor: And because the first day of the week was it in which now such solemn Service to him was done, therefore also the Apostle commanded, that upon the same day also, as on a day most fit, this duty of collecting for the Poor should be done: For the Lord loves a cheerful giver, 2 Cor. 9. 6, 7.

Wherefore the Apostle by this, takes the Churches as it were at the advantage, and as we say, while the Iron is hot, to the intent he might, what in him lay, make their Gollections, not sparing nor of a grudging mind, but to flow from cheerfulness. And the first day of the week, ⟨p. 102⟩though its institution was set aside, doth most naturally tend to this; because it is the day, the only day, in which we received such blessings from God, Acts 3. 26.

Wherefore the Apostle by this, takes the Churches as it were at the advantage, and as we say, while the Iron is hot, to the intent he might, what in him lay, make their Gollections, not sparing nor of a grudging mind, but to flow from cheerfulness. And the first day of the week, ⟨p. 102⟩though its institution was set aside, doth most naturally tend to this; because it is the day, the onely day, in which we received such blessings from God, Acts 3. 26.