A47381:78
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
London : s.n., 1697
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.
Of the Christian Sabbath.
XXVIII. WE believe that one Day in seven,1 ought to be solemnly observed in ⟨p. 28⟩the Worship of God; and that by Moses's Law the Jews and proselyted Strangers were to keep the seventh Day: but from the Resurrection of Christ the first Day of the Week ought by all Christians to be observed Holy to the Lord, that being called the Lord's Day;2 and the first time the Church met3 together after Christ's Ascension was on the Day of Pentecost, which was the first Day of the Week, as Tradition hath handed it down: and on that Day the Church also met together to break Bread,4 and make Collections for the poor Saints: and no mention is made that any one Gospel-Church kept the Jewish Sabbath in all the New Testament. And we believe that an Apostolical Precedent is equivalent to an Apostolical Precept in this case.