A37049:946
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The Apostles and primitive Christians kept and esteemed the First day for their solemn day, beyond and above all days, yea, and it only as the Christian Sabbath. For 1. on that day they used to meet ordinarily, and that not occasionally, but purposely and determinately, as John 20. v. 19. and 26. which is clearly the First day. 2. They are purposely together, and not for fear (for fear scattereth) but while they are together, they do for fear shut the doors, being very probably led from the news of the Resurrection to be together; and so again, v. 26. they meet, and Christ with them: And though it may possibly be, that on other days they met; ⟨p. 263⟩yet doubtless this holdeth forth something peculiar to this day, and some Lesson to be taken from it: That 1. Christs coming to them is especially trusted on that day, and that while they are together. 2. That when they met at any other time, 'ere he came to them it's never said, they were or came together the second, third or fourth day of the week, but on the First; and wherefore doth the Holy Ghost record that day, or their meeting on that day, when he omitteth the naming of other days; but that that day in its Exercises may be especially taken notice of, and though other days had been much alike in Exercises to them, yet the recording of this day so often, and omitting the other, intimateth a difference, sure they are not alike in this, so much for the 20 of John, which is the first place of Scripture we make use of.
2. The Apostles and primitive Christians kept and esteemed the First day for their solemn day, beyond and above all dayes, yea, and it only as the Christian Sabbath. For 1. on that day they used to meet ordinarily, and that not occasionally, but purposely and determinately, as John 20. v. 19. and 26. which is clearly the First day. 2. They are purposely together, and not for fear (for fear scattereth) but while they are together, they do for fear shut the doors, being very probably led from the news of the Resurrection to be together; and so again, v. 26. they meet, and Christ with them: And though it may possibly be, that on other dayes they met; ⟨p. 263⟩