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A26918	The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1253; ESTC R3169	125,645	262

Institution for holy Worship especially in Church-assemblies CHAP. II. Prop. I. That Christ Commissioned his Apostles or his principal Church-Ministers to teach the Churches all his Doctrine and deliver them all his Commands and Orders and so to settle and guide the first Churches This I prove 1. By their Commission it self 2. By their performance with its proper seal 3. By the Consent of all the Christian world 1. Luke 6. 13. He called to him his Disciples and of them he chose twelve whom also he named Apostles Their first Commission is recited Matth. 10. at large Matth. 28. 18 19 20. All Authority is given me in Heaven and in Earth Go ye therefore and disciple all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you And loe I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Amen John 20. 21. Then said Jesus to them again Peace be unto you As the Father hath sent me even so send I you And when he had said this he breathed on them and said Receive ye the Holy Ghost Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosesoever sins ye retain they are retained Luke 10. 16. Even of the seventy it is said He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me And to the twelve Matth. 10. 40. He that receiveth you receiveth me c. Acts 26. 17. Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles to whom now I send thee to open their eyes 1 Cor. 15. 3. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received c. 1 Cor. 11. 23. For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you 1 Cor. 4. 1 2. Let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the mysteries of God Gal. 1. 11 12. But I certifie you brethren that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man For I neither received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. John 21. 15 16 17. Simon Son of Jonas lovest thou me Feed my Lambs Matth. 16. 19. I will give unto thee the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven John 17. 18. As thou hast sent me into the world so have I also sent them into the world See John 13. 16 20. Acts 1. 24 25. Shew whether of these two thou hast chosen that he may take part of this Ministry and Apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell Gal. 1. 1. Paul an Apostle not of men neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father Acts 1. 2. After that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandment to the Apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he presented himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them forty dayes and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God Acts 2. 42. They continued stedfast in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship c. Eph. 4. 11 12 13 14 15 16. He gave some Apostles some Prophets c. 1 Cor. 12. 28 29. First Apostles secondarily Prophets c. Are all Apostles c. Eph. 2. 20. Being built on the foundation of the Apostles c. 2. Pet. 3. 2. That ye may be mindfull of the words which were spoken before by the holy Prophets and of the Commandments of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour Acts 10. 5. Send men to Joppa and call for Simon c. and be shall tell thee c. They that will not take all this plain evidence of Scripture for a proof of this first Proposition I suppose would not be ever the more moved by it if I should be so needlesly tedious as to stay to fetch Arguments from each Text. 2. The Apostles exercised such a power as the Proposition mentioneth and God s●t to it the seal of Miracles Therefore such a Power or Office was given them by Christ. The Consequence is undenyable The Antecedent of this Enthimeme is so plainly expressed in Scripture that I am loth to take up much of my own or the Readers time in proving so known a thing They founded the Churches they delivered them the Doctrine and Commands of Christ they setled the Churches as to Officers Orders and Discipline according to Christs Commands and the Spirits determinations Thus they ordained the new Office of Deacons and Deaconeffes or Widows and they ordained them Elders in every Church or City and they determined of Church Controversies and gave the Church Decrees and delivered the Will of Christ about the Sacrament Church-Assemblies Prophecyings c. Acts 2. 14. 23. Acts 6. 3 4 c. 1 Tim. 3. Titus 1. Acts 15. 1 Cor. 11. 1 Cor. 14 c. 3. That all Christians save Hereticks did acknowledge their power and acquiesce in their Decrees and Conduct being a matter of fact needs no other proof than the common History of former Ages and practice of this Which are so well known that I will not injure the Reader by proving it CHAP. III. Prop. 2. Christ promised his Spirit to his Apostles to enable them to do what be had commissioned them to do by leading them into all truth and bringing his words and deeds to their remembrance and by guiding them as his Churches Guides In the Old Testament it is prophesied and promised Jer. 3. 15. And I will give you Pastors according to mine heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding See all the Texts that promise the pouring out of the Spirit Isa. 44. 3. Ezck. 36. 27. 37. 14. 39. 29. Joel 2. 28 29. Which were principally fulfilled on the Apostles Luke 24. 49. And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you But tarry ye in the City of Jerusalem untill ye be endued with power from on high John 15. 26 27. But when the Advocate is come whom I will send unto you from the Father he shall testifie of me and ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning John 16. 7 12 13 14 15. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Advocate will not come unto you But if I depart I will send him unto you I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now Ho●beit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all the truth For he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak And he shall shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine Therefore said I

holy Ghost and use violence against Gods word which I should obey Obj. There is no Law in the Scripture to observe the first day no promise made to observers of it no threatning against the breakers of it c. shew it And if no Law no transgression Rom. 4. 15. Sin is a transgression of the Law Answ. I have shewed you full proof of a Law for it before Though it is not Christs way to enact his Laws in that Majestick Commanding forms as God did to Moses on the Mount But as he condescended into flesh to be a Teacher and Saviour in the form of a Servant under the Law himself to redeem those that were under it so he maketh his Laws in a merciful Teaching stile All that is revealed by him as his will appointing our duty is his Law But that we observe the Lords day is revealed by him as his will making it our duty These are his Laws requiring us to Hear and obey his spirit in his Apostles Joh. 20. 21 22. As the Father hath sent me so send I you And when he had said this be breathed on them and said Receive ye the Holy Ghost c. Luk. 10. 16. He that heareth you heareth me And this is his Law requiring his Apostles by that spirit to promulgate his Laws and make known his will Mat. 28. 19 20. Go disciple me all Nations Baptizing them c. Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you and loe I am with you alwaies to the end of the world or age with the other Texts forecited And that the Spirit in the Apostles hath setled the Lords day as the separated day for holy assemblies and Worship I have proved to you both by the Texts which you now sought in vain to make void and by the unquestionable practice and history of the universal Church from that age untill this And withal by other Texts which you omit which not alone but all set together make up the proof because it is historical evidence of a matter of fact which we have to seek after 1. Christs Resurrection laid the foundation or gave the Cause as Gods ceasing from his works did of the Sabbath 2. Christs appearing to them assembled on that day began the actual separation 3. The Holy Ghost coming down on them on that day did more notably sanctifie it 4. The Holy Ghost as an infallible spirit in them did cause them to make a publick settlement of that day in all the Churches which was the full and actual establishment 5. This settlement is fully proved de facto in Scripture and infallible history 6. And that there are promises and threatnings to the obeyers and rejecters of Christs commands whom the Father commanded us to hear and who is the great Prophet of the Church I hope you believe Rev. 20. 14. Happy are they who do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life c. Heb. 12. 25. See that yee refuse not him that speaketh For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more c. Act. 3. 23. It shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people 1 Joh. 4. 6. We are of God He that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of Errour If besides all this you must have particular precepts promises and threatnings in the form which you imagine to be fittest you may for want of those deny many other Gospel Laws as well as this Have you not much more for the separation of the Lords day than you have for Infants Baptism for a Christian Magistrate for Christians wageing Warr for prohibited degrees as to Marriage c. I am perswaded the sober study of these points would do much to convince the contrary minded 1. How much of Christs work as to the settlement of Church-Orders was committed to the Apostles to be done and how little he publickly setled himself in person before his Resurrection 2. How much the Gospel administration excelleth that of the Law And what eminent Glory God designeth to himself by the work of mans Redemption and how much more now he calleth man to Read and Study and Know him in the face of Jesus Christ than in the Creation And how largely the change of the Covenant is proved in the Epistle to the Hebrews 3. What a change is made herein as to mans duty since the fall of man under the wrath of the Creator who is not now his Rest but his terrour and a consuming fire till Reconciled and Adopting us in Christ And since the Earth is cursed to us as a punishment for our sins 4. How much of the certainty and Glory of the Christian faith and of all our Rest and Consolation in it is laid in the Gospel on the RESURRECTION of our Lord as beginning a new World or Creation as it were and as conquering and triumphing over death and Satan and sealing the promise and bringing Life and Immortality to Light and opening the Kingdom of Heaven to Believers 5. How much of Christs Legislation and administration of his Church-settlement and Government was to be done by the Holy Ghost And how glorious this office of the Holy Ghost is and of what grand importance to be understood As he was the promised Paraclete or Advocate or Agent of our glorified Lord to do his Work on Earth in his bodily absence To whom the Infallibility of the Scriptures the sealing operation of Miracles the Sanctification of Believers and forming them for Glory in the Image of God is to be ascribed Whom to Blaspheme is the unpardonable sin 6. How dangerous a thing it is made by the Holy Ghost to seek to set up Moses Law as the whole Epistle to the Gal. besides most of the other Epistles testifie as intimating a denyal of Christ and a falling from Grace and a perverse setting up of that which Christ came to take down as part of our own redemption And how large and plain Paul is upon this Subject and how the spirit in all the Apostles did determine it Act. 15. And how the Cerinthians Nicolaitans Ebionites Nazaraeans and many more of the condemned Heresies of that age which troubled the Churches and whom the Apostles wrote against went all that way of mingling the Jewish Law with the Gospel 7. How plainly and expresly Paul numbreth Sabbaths with the shaddows that cease Col. 2. 16. to pass by other Texts And what violence mens own wits must use in denying the evidence of so plain a Text. Their reason that he saith not Sabbath but Sabbaths is against themselves the plural number being most comprehensive and other Sabbaths receiving their name from this And the word Sabbath alwaies used in Scripture for a Rest which was partly Ceremonial See what Dr. Young in his excellent Dies Domin saith of this