A Body of Practical Divinity

2. The keeping of the First Day, (which is the Lord's Day) was the Practice of the Apostles, 1 Cor. 16.2. Acts 20.7. On the first Day of the Week, when the Disciples came together to break Bread, Paul Preached to them. Here was both Preaching and Breaking of Bread on this Day. Austin, and Innocentius, and Isidore, make the keeping of our Gospel-Sabbath to be an Apostolical Sanction, and affirm that by Virtue of the Apostles Practice, this Lord's Day is to be sequestered and set ⟨p. 333⟩apart for Divine Worship. What the Apostles did, they did it by Divine Authority, for they were inspired by the Holy Ghost.

2. The keeping of the First Day, (which is the Lord's Day) was the Practice of the Apostles, 1 Cor. 16.2. Acts 20.7. On the first Day of the Week, when the Disciples came together to break Bread, Paul Preached to them. Here was both Preaching and Breaking of Bread on this Day. Austin, and Innocentius, and Isidore, make the keeping of our Gospel-Sabbath to be an Apostolical Sanction, and affirm that by Vertue of the Apostles Practice, this Lord's Day is to be sequestred and set ⟨p. 333⟩apart for Divine Worship. What the Apostles did, they did it by Divine Authority, for they were inspired by the Holy Ghost.

3. Besides, the Primitive Church had the Lord's Day, which we now Celebrate in High Estimation. It was a great Badge of their Religion to observe this Day. Ignatius the most ancient Father, who lived in the time of St. John the Apostle, hath these Words, Let every one that loveth Christ, keep holy the First Day of the Week, the Lord's Day. This Day hath been observed by the Church of Christ above Sixteen Hundred Years, as Learned Bucer notes. Thus you see how the Seventh-day Sabbath comes to be changed to the First-day Sabbath.