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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	call_v	day_n	sabbath_n	1,461	5	9.9421	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30663	The constant communicant a diatribe proving that constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the indespensible duty of every Christian / by Ar. Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1681 (1681)	Wing B6191; ESTC R32021	237,193	397

people in the Templ vers 20. And in the last verse we find their obedience such that daily in the Templ and in every house if the Translation speak truth they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ But the Greek speaketh as before In conformity to the Angels command they preached to the people in the Templ that they might Convert the yet Unconverted and they did the same and more in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to confirm those that were already Discipled Thus far we have found fair Probabilities Now I add a Demonstration not heeded by the above-named Learned Authors Hitherto we have found it in the singular number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but upon cogent reason we shall find it in the plural Acts 20.20 St. Paul having convened the Disciples of Asia thus justifies himself to them I have kept back nothing from you but have preached publikly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may now be more tolerably thogh not exactly translated from house to house Now I demand any colour of reason for this change of number other than This plain one Asia was a large Province There were Therein divers Churches in divers Cities and it was proper that every City should have it's proper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and consequently the Apostle must there preach as from City to City so from Hous to Hous But Hierusalem was no more than One thogh perhaps greater than two or three Cities and required no more but One so it were a great Meeting-house and There breaking of Bread might well be celebrated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in one Domo As certainly therefor as the Plural number signifieth more than the Singular and a Large Provnice needeth more Meeting-houses than a City and the Apostl changeth numbers in conformity to the need so certain it is that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must signifie such a House as is appropriate to such a Meeting and such an Exercise V. 4. THE TIME when this was do'n is severally stated one way for Hierusalem and another for remoter Churches 1. At Hierusalem the Apostles and Brethren continued Daily in breaking of bread as well as in supplication and prayers but it was not could not be so in other places Hierusalem was the Metropolis There the Apostolik College kept their constant residence they deserted their Secular calings devoting themselves entirely to the propagation of the Gospel preaching in that Mother-city and thence issuing their Emissaries and Orders to other Churches There all that believed were together and had all things common sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men as every man had need Acts 2.45 and 4.35 This was no more than necessary that those who had nothing but their hands might not be compelled to imploy them with their time for their bodily maintenance and in consequence hereof when all the Believers were impoverished in Particular and their common stock spent then must they be maintained by Contribution from Other Churches whom their Emissaries had converted to the same Faith receiving Carn I things in exchange for Spiritual things 2. To These Churches therefor another life was necessary Being to minister not only to their Own necessities but to those of the now poor Saints at Hierusalem they were caled to Work as well as to Believ To his Corinthians our Apostle prescribeth that in what ever caling any man is caled he therein abide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Gods name and to the Thessalonians That if any one would not Work neither should he Eat Yet as the poor Saints must have a Portion of their Goods so must God have of their Time The Law had directed to the Seventh day Upon that day they Might and they Did join with the Jews in their Sabbath Devotions in their Synagogs as the Apostls did at Hierusalem in the Templ But for This holy Supper That Day was for the same reason no less unfit than That Templ What therefor we said of the necessity of another Place is no less true concerning another Day necessary to be consecrated to this Anti-Jewish office And what Day more proper than the Next not only nearest in Time but superior in Work On the Seventh day God rested from his work of Creation and fested Himself in the complacency he receved from the vieu of its perfection But upon the First day our Savior triumphed in the accomplishment of the to Him harder and to Us happier work of our Redemtion And as this Office was to take it's time after Reading Preaching and Prayer as we shall see more anon so was it congruos that it should succeed the Sabbath consecrate by the Law to those Offices The next day therefor as every way fittest is set apart for this Greater Mystery in memory of our Saviors Passion and Benefits This we find expresly declared Act. 20.7 Upon the First day of the week the Disciples came together to break bread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for breaking breads sake And for this reason was it stiled the Lords day as appropriate to the honor of His Person Rev. 1.10 And in aftertimes the day of Bread Chrysost Hom. 5. De Resurrect And since we cannot better manifest our Love to him than by charity to his members and this Supper was both an Emblem and a Means of mutual Love therefore must it be attended with Liberality to the Poor recommended specially at this time by our Apostl to the Corinthians as before to his Galatians exhorting that Upon the First day of the week every one should lay by in store as God had prospered him 1 Corin. 16.1 2. And for this constantly attending Offertories sake no less than for the influence they had in promoting mutual love among the Communicants were these stiled Fests of charity under which character St. Jude mentions them as the ordinary exercise of all visible Members of the Church which els had not be'n so obnoxious to the Spots he complains of Yet so incorrigibl was the General sensuality that by Tertullians time they were relapsed into the same profaneness with that reproved in the Corinthians the Fests forgot their relation to the Lords Supper and a while after were banished out of his Church For som Ages did the now dead Sabbath ly in state not as still in force by vertu of the Law which it self was dead but in charity to the Jews in order to whose more probable conversion Christians complyed with them as far as lawfully and conveniently they Might and they Might so in All offices of Natural religion as in their Templ so on their Sabbath thogh the Sanctity of Both were equally abolished But with This difference that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were without any Positive Command honored by the Jews as so many Chappels of ease even while the Mother-templ stood and therefor were not by the Apostl's first consecrate to this office But the Lords day was never sanctified by the Jews nor upon any other account by the Apostls