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§ 2. As these Churches, have the Incontestable Judgment and Practice of the Primitive; (directed by the Spirit of GOD who calls the first Day of the Jewish Week, Rev. I 10. The LORD's Day,) harmonizing with them in their Sabbatizing on the Lord▪s Day; and may say that which Dionysius of Corinth wrote unto the Church of Rome, This Day being the Lord's Day, we keep it Holy. And as their Judgment and Practice is according to that in Clemens of Alexandria; A true Christian according to the Commands of the Gospel, observes the Lord's Day, by casting out all evil Thoughts, and entertaining all good Ones, glorifying the Resurrection of the Lord on that Day. So they keep up the Term of, The LORD's Day: and look upon it as an abuse to call it, Sunday: Though the Day being the Christian Sabbath, it is as frequently called, The Sabbath, and, The Sabbath Day, among them. There is an unhappy Passage in the Rhemish and Romish Annotations upon the New Testament, concerning the Protestants; While they ⟨p. 44⟩say, Ministers, let us say, Priests; when they call it a Communion Table, let us call it an Altar; Let us keep our Old Words, and we shall keep our Old Things. But then, these Rhemish Annotators themselves, condemn the Name of Sunday as Heathenish. The Churches are sensible, That the Pagans first called this Day by the Name of Sunday, and that it was a stroke of their Idolatry to call it so; it was to express the Dedication of the Day unto the oldest and brightest Idol in the World. Though they let the Planetary Names for the other Days stand in their present Indifferency, (however no better a Man then Polydore Virgil complains of that!) nevertheless, they incline to think, that the Third Commandment as well as the Fourth, obliges them to allow unto the Lord's Day the Name which He has himself challenged for it. They are not ashamed of Confessing their LORD, or of Confessing that this Day belongs to him. 'Tis true, some of the Ancients, as both Justin Martyr and Tertullian, do sometimes in their Apologies, call the Lord's Day, by the Name of Sunday: But there is this to be Apologized for them, That they directed their Apologies unto the Pagans, who would not have readily understood another Name.

§ 2. As these Churches, have the Incontestible Judgment and Practice of the Primitive; (directed by the Spirit of GOD who calls the first Day of the Jewish Week, Rev. I 10. The LORD's Day,) harmonizing with them in their Sabbatizing on the Lord▪s Day; and may say that which Dimysius of Corinth wrote unto the Church of Rome, This Day being the Lord's Day, we keep it Holy. And as their Judgment and Practice is according to that in Clemens of Alexandria; A true Christian according to the Commands of the Gospel, observes the Lord's Day, by casting out all evil Tho'ts, and entertaining all good Ones, glorifying the Resurrection of the Lord on that Day. So they keep up the Term of, The LORD's Day: and look upon it as an abuse to call it, Sunday: Though the Day being the Christian Sabbath, it is as frequently called, The Sabbath, and, The Sabbath Day, among them. There is an unhappy Passage in the Rhemish and Romish Annotations upon the New Testament, concerning the Protestants; While they