2. ANd further, that this day was consecrated by Gods divine Authority, the great workes which he honoured that day with, doth shew, as one hath collected from Scripture. As the Israelites passing through the red Sea, the Manna first ray∣ned upon the Israelites in the Desert, Christ was Baptized in Jordan, water was turned into Wine in Cana of Galilee, where∣in the Lord blessed the five leaves where-with he fed 5000. men, wherein he rose againe from the dead, entered into the house the doores being shut, and wherein the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles.
3. This reason also may perswade it, because the Lords day is sanctified to holy uses, as the Sabbath was to the Jewes; but it belongeth only to God to sanctifie by his Word, as the Apostle saith, Every creature is sanctified by the Word of God, and prayer, 1 Tim. 4. 5. therefore the Lords day must be warranted by the Word, before it can be changed by the Word, there must be the same authority in the alteration of it, as was in the first institu∣tion. The Lords day then was not ordained by the ordinary au∣thority of the Church, for then the Church by the same autho∣rity might constitute another day if there were cause, which can∣not be admitted. The Apostolick Church according to the liberty given them of Christ did make choyse of the first day for the seven, being specially directed thereunto by the Spirit of God, for the reasons▪ abovesaid.
Obj. The Apostle reproveth the Galathians for observing dayes and moneths, &c.