Of the Christian Sabbath.
XXVIII. WE believe that one Day in seven,* 1.1 ought to be solemnly observed in
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
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- The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
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- Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1697.
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"The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47381.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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the Worship of God; and that by Moses's Law the Jews and prose∣lyted Strangers were to keep the seventh Day: but from the Resur∣rection of Christ the first Day of the Week ought by all Christians to be observed Holy to the Lord, that being called the Lord's Day;* 1.2 and the first time the Church met* 1.3 together after Christ's Ascension was on the Day of Pentecost, which was the first Day of the Week, as Tradition hath handed it down: and on that Day the Church also met together to break Bread,* 1.4 and make Collections for the poor Saints: and no mention is made that any one Gospel-Church kept the Jewish Sabbath in all the New Testament. And we believe that an Apostolical Precedent is equiva∣lent to an Apostolical Precept in this case.
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* 1.1
Exod. 20.
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* 1.2
Rev. 1.10.
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* 1.3
Act. 2.1, 2. Acts 20.7.
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* 1.4
1 Cor. 16.2