A47606:79
A short confession of faith
A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perseverance.A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perserverance.
London : s.n., 1697?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Articles of Faith of the Church of Christ meeting at Horsley-Down. › Of the Christian Sabbath.
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, ought to be solemnly observed in ⟨p. 28⟩1the 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; 2and the first time the Church met together after Christ's Ascension 3was 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, and 4make 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.