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…

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.

This is the day on which, at first, it rained Manna all day long from Heaven upon the New Testament-Church, and so continues to do this day. Oh! the resurrection of Christ, which was on this day, and the riches that we receive thereby: Though it should be, and is, I hope, thought on every day; yet when the First of the week is fully come! Then To day! This day! This is the day to be warmed; this day he was begotten from the dead.

The thought of this, will do much with an honest mind: This is the day, I say, that the first Saints DID find, and that after-Saints DO find the blessings of God come down upon them; and therefore this is the day here commanded to be set apart for holy Duties.