The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts

2. And if those meetings on the first day were not such as used to be formerly on the seventh day, I desire to know a reason, 1. Why their Meetings on the first day should be particularly recorded, rather than their Meetings on the seventh. 2. And why also the one is so oft mentioned, i. e. their Meetings on the first day, and no mention at all that they met on the seventh day in the New Testament, from the Resurrection of Christ, as a Church-assembly to worship God, or discharge any part of Religious Duties; nor of their meeting on the second, third, fourth, &c.

Object. But it seems as if they came not together till the evening of this day, tho it was the first day of the week; and so it proves not that this whole day ought to be kept in solemn Worship.

Answ. For this there is not the least shadow of Proof. What tho Paul continued his Speech till midnight; might not some other Ministers spend the former part of the day in Preaching, Exhortation, or in Prayer? Or, might not Paul (as some of us do) preach twice himself on that day, and they refresh themselves about the middle of the day? I find one Author speaking thus:¹ Paul spending this whole day in that Service, and continuing his Sermon till midnight ⟨p. 234⟩(yet accounting it still one day) in solemn meeting, doth confirm this Day to be more than an ordinary day, or than other days of the week, as being specially dedicated to these Services and Exercises, and totally spent in them. It is said, that they came together on the first day of the week; and no doubt but it was in the morning of that day, for so we find they did on the same day of the week,