The sixth duty wherein we must offer violence to our selves, is, The Religious sanctifying of the Lords day. That there should be a day of holy rest dedicated to God, appears from the institution. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Our Christian Sabbath comes in the room of the Jewish Sabbath: it is called [Greek or Hebrew], the Lords day, Rev. 1. 10. from Christ the Author of it. Our Sabbath is altered by Christ's own ⟨p. 64⟩appointment. He arose this day out of the grave, and appeared on it often to his Disciples, 1 Cor. 16. 1. To intimate to them (saith Athanasius) that he transferred the Sabbath to the Lords day. And St. Austin saith, That by Christ's rising on the first day of the week, it was consecrated to be the Christian Sabbath in remembrance of his Resurrection*. This day was ant•tly called, Dies Lucis, the day of Light; as Junius observes. The other days of the week would be dark, were it not for the shining of the Sun of Righteousness on this day. This day hath been called by the Ancients, Regind di•rum, the Queen of days. And St. Hieroni prefers this day above all solemn Festivals. The Primitive Church had this day in high veneration: it was a great badge of their Religion: for when the question was asked, Servasti Dominicum? Keepest thou the Sabbath? the answer was made, Christianus sum, I am a Christian, and dare not omit the celebration of the Lords day. What great cause have we thankfully to remember this day! As the benefit of Israel's deliverance ⟨p. 65⟩from the Babylonish captivity was so great, that it drowned the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt, Jer. 16. 14. So the benefit of our deliverance from Satan's captivity, and the rising of Christ from finishing the glorious work of our Redemption was so famous, that in respect of this, his other benefits receive as it were a diminution. Great was the work of Creation; but greater the work of Redemption. It cost more to redeem us, than make us. In the one, there was only the speaking a word, Psal. 148. 5 in the other the shedding of blood, Heb. 9. 22. The Creation was the work of God's fingers, Psal. 8. 3. the Redemption, the work of his arm, Luke 1. 5. In the Creation God gave us ourselves; in the Redemption he gave us himself. So that the Sabbath putting us in mind of our Redemption, ought to be observed with the highest devotion, Herein we must offer holy violence to our selves.
The sixth duty wherein we must offer violence to our selves, is, The Religious sanctifying of the Lords day. That there should be a day of holy rest dedicated to God, appears from the institution. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Our Christian Sabbath comes in the room of the Jewish Sabbath: it is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Lords day, Rev. 1. 10. from Christ the Author of it. Our Sabbath is altered by Christ's own ⟨p. 64⟩appointment. He arose this day out of the grave, and appeared on it often to his Disciples, 1 Cor. 16. 1. To intimate to them (saith Athanasius) that he transferred the Sabbath to the Lords day. And St. Austin saith, That by Christ's rising on the first day of the week, it was consecrated to be the Christian Sabbath in remembrance of his Resurrection*. This day was ant•tly called, Dies Lucis, the day of Light; as Junius observes. The other days of the week would be dark, were it not for the shining of the Sun of Righteousness on this day. This day hath been called by the Antients, Regind di•rum, the Queen of days. And St. Hieroni preferrs this day above all solemn Festivals. The Primitive Chur•h had this day in high veneration: it was a great badge of their Religion: for when the question was asked, Servasti Dominicum? Keepest thou the Sabbath? the answer was made, Christianus sum, I am a Christian, and dare not omit the celebration of the Lords day. What great cause have we thankfully to remember this day! As the benefit of Israel's deliverance ⟨p. 65⟩from the Babylonish captivity was so great, that it drowned the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt, Jer. 16. 14. So the benefit of our deliverance from Satan's captivity, and the rising of Christ from finishing the glorious work of our Redemption was so famous, that in respect of this, his other benefits receive as it were a diminution. Great was the work of Creation; but greater the work of Redemption. It cost more to redeem us, than make us. In the one, there was only the speaking a word,
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