Thesis 28.
That the Churches honoured this Day above any other, [ 28] shall appeare in its place, as also that the Apostles com∣manded them so to doe. Yet Mr. Primrose saith that this latter is doubtful: and Mr. Ironside (not questioning the matter) fals off with another evasion, viz. That they acted herein not as Apostles, but as ordinary Pastours, and consequently as fallible men,* 1.1 not only in commanding this Change of the Sab∣ba••h, but in all other matters of Church government (among which he reckons this of the Sabbath to be one) which he thinks were im∣posed according to their private wisdome as most fit for those times, but not by any Apostolicall Commission as concerning all times. But to imagine that matters of Church-government in the Apostles dayes wete coats for the Moon in respect of after∣times, and that the form of it is mutable (as he would have it) I suppose will be digested by few honest and sober minds in these times, unlesse they be byassed for a season by politick ends, and therefore herein I will not now contend; one••y it may be considered whether any private spirit could abolish that Day, which from the beginning of the world God so highly honoured, and then honour and advance another Day above it, and sanctifie it too (as shall be proved) for reli∣gious services. Could any do this justly but by immediate dispensation from the Lord Christ Jesus? and if the Apo∣stles did thus receive it immediately from Christ, and so teach the observation of it, they could not then teach it as fallible men, and as private Pastors, as he would have