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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.
3. That it was not any indefinite day of the Lord: For, 1. there is great odds betwixt the Lords Day, and the Day of the Lord, the former looketh to a constant special right and ⟨p. 267⟩peculiar interest that God hath in that day beside other day •, even as when the Seventh day was called his Day before, the Temple, his Temple, the prescribed Service, his Service, and the Sacrament of the Supper, his Supper, &c. 2. That day would be still dark to the Church if it were indefinite, contrary to Johns scope.
3. That it was not any indefinite day of the Lord: For, 1. there is great odds betwixt the Lords Day, and the Day of the Lord, the former looketh to a constant special right and ⟨p. 267⟩peculiar interest that God hath in that day beside other daye •, even as when the Seventh day was called his Day before, the Temple, his Temple, the prescribed Service, his Service, and the Sacrament of the Supper, his Supper, &c. 2. That day would be still dark to the Church if it were indefinite, contrary to Johns scope.
4. That it is, and must be such a day as was commonly set apart by Christians to God as his, and that with respect to Christ the Mediator, and such a day as was known to them; And by the former practises it is clear, that this day is the first day of the Week, being the Lord Christ's day, who now having conquered death, and gotten the victory, He doth therefore claim this day as a tribute to him.
4. That it is, and must be such a day as was commonly set apart by Christians to God as his, and that with respect to Christ the Mediatour, and such a day as was known to them; And by the former practises it is clear, that this day is the first day of the Week, being the Lord Christ's day, who now having conquered death, and gotten the victory, He doth therefore claim this day as a tribute to him.