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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

this cannot be but the day spoken of hath the same honourable title and name as the Lords Supper the Word of the Lord. c. 4. That the particular Day well known to the Churches of Christ called by the same honourable and holy Title or Name as the Lords Supper is and other holy Institutions was the first day of the week And for the Proof of this let us consider Arguments of all sorts inartificial and artificial abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures Light and Evidence First To begin with inartificial Arguments viz. Test●mon● of all the Churches in all ages from the Apostles times until you come nigh to our dayes take Mr. Baxter's own words It is unquestionable to any man versed in antiquity that all the Churches of Christ Greek and Latin Syrian Ethiopick Persian and Ar●b●ck called the first day of the week the Lords Day and further he and other Worthies have and do give the chalenge unto any one to cite out of approved Histories or from but one an●●ent Writer but one Church or but one Christian or but one Heretick who did gainsay this but of late times And what force there is in this Argument we may now weigh it the Word of God saith that the Testimony of two Men is true John 8.17 this is granted of all who have but humanity that it is legally true and the contrary to this is legally false and we may know what to judge of him that speaks it but the Testimony of all the Churches of Christ from the Apostles time from age to age may well have the credit which belongs to two men and somewhat more especially if we consider that it was not possible all the Churches East and West those who had no opportunity one with another that these could convene or any wayes consult to deceive their poor posterity with a lie by telling them that the first day of the week had the holy name of the Lords day and was to be kept holy when if it were false but they all spake the same thing because they were guided according to truth which came from the same spirit of truth breathing in the Apostles and guiding the Churches in the primitive time to declare the same to their Children and so to Childrens Children in all ages according as it was said in another case Psal 78.6 7. and if de facto as they call it concerning the fact for that we now speak of viz. that the first day of the week from the primitive time was called the Lords day if Histories be of no use to inform us or what they say ought not to be credited although they generally speak the same thing as to fact what was done I know not of what use they be but all the Books and Histories of the Church of Christ concerning the time of the ten Persecutions and ever since may be committed to the Flames as unworthy of credit and let us never Write and Record any thing more for the benefit of Posterity of this kind But I take it for granted that no sober minded Christian will agree to this whatever John Rogers his judgement may be And if any do desire to see more fully how it is proved that the first day of the week is the Lords day by the testimony of the antient Writers let them read Mr. Samuel Cradock's Book Entituled Knowledge and Practice and Mr. Baxter's Book concerning the first Day of the week by Divine Appointment the Lords Day in which Books may be seen the antient Writers cited in their several places and ages from the primitive time to the latter time attesting the first day of the week to be the Lords Day We have at present done with the first Argument as it respects Testimony 2. But let us proceed to that kind of Argument which by the Learned is called Artificial and argues from the Artifice Frame and Nature of the thing and must necessarily be granted to be the strongest way of Reasoning Arg. The Apostle calls the Day as it was by the Lord made and as it is or else he did miscal it the first part of this disjunct Proposition must be granted that the Apostle did call the Day as it is as the Lord had made for none will dare to say that he miscalled it unless it be those who have learned to Blaspheme The Minor follows that the first day of the Week was made by the Lord above any other day of the week to be the Lords Day in Gospel times and for the Proof of this let us now Consider 1. First this was the day in which our Lord rose John 20. ● Luk. 24.1 2. This was the day in which he appeared to the two Disciples after his Resurrection to teach them Luk. 24.13 3. This was the day in which he appeared to the Apostles and gave them their Commission and the Holy Ghost to enable them Luk. 24.33 36. John 20.19 20 21 22. 4. And this was the day he chose again to appear when Thomas was with them John 20.26 5. And this was the day promised and prophesied of and sulfilled as in the former particulars It was the day promised in Psal 118.24 called the day the Lord hath made speaking by way of Promise and Prophecie of Christs Resurrection Day as it is express in the words And that which some have mentioned in Ezek. 43.27 hath likewise its weight that the eighth day shall be the day wherein their Offering shall be accepted Arg. Take the Argument from hence either this was performed literally or typically if literally then the eighth day which is our first day of the week was Honoured and Sanctified above the seventh day and tha● by the Lords appointment but thus it was not before the Gospel times for that would be contrary to Numb 28.9 10. therefore it is to be understood typically viz. what day in Gospel times the Worship of God shall be acceptable and that is the eight day which is our first day of the week And that day of his Resurrection was the day of performing that great promise and prophecie Thou art my Son this day I have begotten thee for thus it s expounded by the Aposte Act. 13.33 God hath fulfilled the same to us in that he hath raised up Jesus again as it is written in the second Psalm Thou art my Son this day I have begotten thee For although Christ is the Son of God from everlasting yet this was the day in which he was declared to be the Son of God by Resurrection from the dead Rom. 1.4 and the first day of the week was the very day for the performance of this promise Heb. 1.5 as Pareus doth more fully explain it And to conclude this and though we cannot expect that those who are under a penal blindness and deafness will either give or take reason until the Lord shall give them an ear to hear and an eye to see and because they say they see their sin