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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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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 Another Argument proving the first day of the week, commonly called the Lords Day, to be the true Christian Sabbath now under the Gospel, may be taken from the constant practice of the Church and People of God since the Apostles times. As I have showed you, that it was the practice of the Apostles to observe the first day of the week, which is argument enough to warrant the day, they being guided by the Spirit of Christ in an especial manner: So it doth clearly appear, that it hath been the practice of all holy men since the Apostles times, to observe this day, and that under the name of the Lords Day.
2 Another Argument proving the first day of the week, commonly called the Lords Day, to bee the true Christian Sabbath now under the Gospel, may bee taken from the constant practice of the Church and People of God since the Apostles times. As I have shewed you, that it was the practice of the Apostles to observe the first day of the week, which is argument enough to warrant the day, they being guided by the Spirit of Christ in an especial manner: So it doth clearly appear, that it hath been the practice of all holy men since the Apostles times, to observe this day, and that under the name of the Lords Day.
Ignatius, who lived in St. Johns time, saith, Let every one that loveth Christ keep holy the Lords Day, which is the Queen of days. 1Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical history plainly shows how the Church and People of God in several ages after the Apostles times observed the first day of the week, as instituted by Christ, and ordained afterwards by the Apostles. I might spend much paper in showing how this day hath been observed in all ages, from the Apostles times to these days. Now the constant custom of the Church is not to be slighted. That expression of the Apostle,2 If any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God, showeth, that the custom of the Church is a matter to be regarded.