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…

Ruth was to mark the place where Boaz lay down to sleep, and shall not Christians also mark the day in which our Lord rose from the dead, Ruth 3. 4.

Ruth was to mark the place where Baaz lay down to sleep, and shall not Christians also mark the day in which our Lord rose from the dead, Ruth 3. 4.

I say, shall we not mark it, when so many memorable things was done on it for, and LO, and IN the Churches of God! Let Saints be ashamed to think that such a day should be looked over, or counted common (when tempted to it by Satan) when kept to religious Service of old, and when beautified with so many divine Characters of sanctity as we have proved, by Christ, his Church, the Holy Ghost, and the command of Apostolical Authority it was.

I say, shall we not mark it, when so many memorable things was done on it for, and LO, and IN the Churches of God! Let Saints be ashamed to think that such a day should be looked over, or counted common (when tempted to it by Satan) when kept to religious Service of old, and when beautifled with so many divine Characters of sanctity as we have proved, by Christ, his Church, the Holy Ghost, and the command of Apostolical Authority it was.

But why, I say, is this day, on which our Lord rose from the dead, Nominated as it is? Why was it not sufficient to say he rose again; or, be rose again the third day? without ⟨p. 123⟩a specification of the very name of the day▪ For, as was said afore. Christ appeared to his Disciples after his resurrection, on other days also; yea and thereon did Miracles too: Why then did not these days live? why was their name, for all that, blotted out, and this day only kept alive in the Churches?