2. If it was a known Day, what Day can it be either by evidence of Scripture or any Antiquity but the first Day of the week? For,
1. There is no other Day on which mention is made of any other work or action of Christ which might occasion a Holy Day, but only this of the Resurrection, which is exactly noted of all the Evangelists to be upon the first Day of the week, and by which work he is expressly said to have all power given him in heaven and earth, Matt. 28.18. and to be actually Lord of dead and living, Rom. 14.9. and therefore why should any other Lords Day be dreamed of? why should Master Brabourne imagine that this day might be some superstitious Easter Day, which happens once a year? the Holy Ghost on the contrary, not setting down the month or day of the year, but of the week wherein Christ arose, and therefore it must be meant of a weekly Holy Day here called the Lords Day.
2. We do not read of any other Day (besides this first Day of the week) which was observed for Holy Sabbath Duties and honoured above any other day for breaking of Bread, for preaching the Word (which were acts of piety) nor for Collections for the poor (the most eminent act of mercy) why then should any imagine any other day to be the Lords day, but that first day?
3. There seems to be much in that which Beza observes out of an ancient Greek Manuscript wherein that first Day of the week, 1 Cor. 16.2. is expressly called the Lords Day, and the Syriac Translation saith that their meeting together to receive the Sacrament, 1 Cor. 11.20. was upon the Lords Day; nor is there any antiquity but expounds this Lords Day of the first Day of the week, as learned Rivet makes good against Gomarus, 1professing, that Quotquot Interprets hactenus fuerunt, haec verba de die Resurrectionis Domini intellexerunt; solus quod quidem sciam, Cl. D. Gomarus contradixit.
⟨p. 29⟩4. Look as Jehovahs, or the Lords Holy Day, Isaiah 58.13. was the seventh Day in the week then in use in the Old Testament, so why should not this Lords Day be meant of some seventh Day (the first of seven in the week which the Lord appointed, and the Church observed under the New Testament, and therefore called (as that was) the Lords Day?
5. There can be no other Day imagined but this to be the Lords Day;
2. If it was a known Day, what Day can it be either by evidence of Scripture or any Antiquity but the first Day of the week? For,
1. There is no other Day on which mention is made of any other work or action of Christ which might occasion a Holy Day, but onely this of the Resurrection, which is exactly noted of all the Evangelists to be upon the first Day of the week, and by which work he is expressely said to have all power given him in heaven and earth, Matt. 28.18. and to be actually Lord of dead and living, Rom. 14.9. and therefore why should any other Lords Day be dreamed of? why should Master Brabourne imagine that this day might be some superstitious Easter Day, which happens once a yeer? the Holy Ghost on the contrary, not setting downe the month or day of the yeer, but of the week wherein Christ arose, and therefore it must be meant of a weekly Holy Day here called the Lords Day.
2. We do not read of any other Day (besides this first Day of the week) which was observed for Holy Sabbath Duties and honoured above any other day for breaking of Bread, for preaching the Word (which were acts of piety) nor for Collections for the poor (the most eminent act of mercy) why then should any imagine any other day to be the Lords day, but that first day?
3. There seems to be much in that which Beza observes out of an ancient Greek Manuscript wherein that first Day of the week, 1 Cor. 16.2. is expressely called the Lords Day, and the Syriack Translation saith that their meeting together to receive the Sacrament, 1 Cor. 11.20. was upon the Lords Day; nor is there any antiquity but expounds this Lords Day of the first Day of the week, as learned Rivet makes good against Gomarus, 1professing, that Quotquot Interpretes hactenus fuerunt, haec verba de die Resurrectionis Domini intellexerunt; solus quod quidem sciam, Cl. D. Gomarus contradixit.
⟨p. 29⟩4. Look as Iehovahs, or the Lords Holy Day, Isaiah 58.13. was the seventh Day in the week then in use in the Old Testament, so why should not this Lords Day be meant of some seventh Day (the first of seven in the week which the Lord appointed, and the Church observed under the New Testament, and therefore called (as that was) the Lords Day?
5. There can be no other Day imagined but this to be the Lords Day;
- 1Rivet Dissert. De orig. Sab. cap. 10.
