The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

The Lords Day as the eighth eternal which was sacred by Christs Resurrection, prefiguring an eternal rest, not of the spirit only, but of the body also; and in his Ep. 119. ad Januarium, The Lords Day is declared not to the Jews, but to Christians by the Lords Resurrection, and from thence began to have its festivity; and de verbis Apostoli Sermo. 15. The Lords Resurrection promised unto us an eternal day, and hath consecrated to us the Lords Day, which is called the Lords, because the Lord rose on that day, and de Temp. Serm. 251. The Apostles and Apostolical men, have therefore ordained the Lords day to be kept with a religious solemnity, because on that day our redeemer rose from the dead. Cyril. in Joan. lib. 12. cap. 58. From Christ presenting himself unto his Apostles on the eighth day, which he interpreteth of the first day of the week, concludes therehence that by right therefore holy Congregations are kept in the Churches on that day. And as Walaeus observes, the celebrity of this day Eusebius refers to Christ himself in these words, Who ever prescribed to all the inhabitants of the World either by Sea or Land, that meeting together one day in the week, they should celebrate the Dominical festivity. ¹Add to this that of Gregory mentioned Section the 1. Nay Athanasius goes further, and shows the equity of it in proportion to the new Creation compared with the old; The end ⟨p. 88⟩of the first Creation was the Sabbath; but the beginning of the second Creature is the Lords Day, wherein he renewed and repaired the old man. Like as therefore in former times he would have the Sabbath day to be kept, so we keep holy the Lords Day as a monument of the beginning of the second Creation. And this proportion is apprehended by Beza also, on the Revelation the first Chap. and 10. verse. That Sabbath day (saith he) continued from the Creation of the World to the Lords resurrection, which seeing it is as it were an other Creation of another spiritual World (as the Prophets speak) then for the Sabbath of the former World, or seventh day was assumed (and that undoubtedly by the Holy Ghost suggesting this to the Apostles) the first day of this new World, in which not the corporal or corruptible light, in the first day of the first World was created: but that heavenly and eternal light did spring unto us.

The Lords Day as the eighth eternall which was sacred by Christs Resurrection, prefiguring an eternall rest, not of the spirit only, but of the body also; and in his Ep. 119. ad Ianuarium, The Lords Day is declared not to the Iewes, but to Christians by the Lords Resurrection, and from thence began to have its festivity; and de verbis Apostoli Sermo. 15. The Lords Resurrection promised unto us an eternall day, and hath consecrated to us the Lords Day, which is called the Lords, because the Lord rose on that day, and de Temp. Serm. 251. The Apostles and Apostolicall men, have therefore ordained the Lords day to be kept with a religious solemnity, because on that day our redeemer rose from the dead. Cyril. in Joan. lib. 12. cap. 58. From Christ presenting himself unto his Apostles on the eighth day, which hee interpreteth of the first day of the weeke, concludes therehence that by right therefore holy Congregations are kept in the Churches on that day. And as Walaeus observes, the celebrity of this day Eusebius referres to Christ himselfe in these words, Who ever prescribed to all the inhabitants of the World either by Sea or Land, that meeting together one day in the weeke, they should celebrate the Dominicall festivity.