50Û APPENDIX. " That this was done to cómmemorate the resurrection of the Redeemer, appears from the citations of Barnabas, and Ignatius, and Clemens of Alex- andria, in the forecited places : And Justin Martyr relates, that on Sunday the christians assembled together, because it was the first day in which God changed the darkness and the chaos, and made the world, and Jesus Christour Saviourin that day arose fromthe dead : For on the daybefore Sa- turday they crucified him, and the day after Saturday, which is Sunday, he appeared to the apostles and disciples, and taught them those things which we have given you." And Origen, adviseshis auditors " to pray unto God, especially on the Lord's-day, which is a commemoration of the passion of Christ: For the resurrection of the Lord is celebrated not only oncein a year, but every seven days." Henceit was that the usual appellation of this day, both by the greekand latin churches, was the Lord's day, nµepa xvp.ar.n, or xup:axn, alone ; and " diesdominions," or " dominicus alone," of which the author gives many instances from the primitive fathers : And sometimes they called it Sunday, that the heathens might particularly understand what day they meant. "But thoughthey so fat complied with the heathens as to call this day Sunday, yet I do not find that they ever so far indulged-theJews, asto call it the sabbath day ; for through all their writings, as maybe seen especially in Tertullianand Justin Martyr, they violently declaim against sabbatizing, that is, the Judaical observationof the seventh day, and not the Lord's-day, whose sanctification is approved and recommended by Justin Martyr andTer- tullian : To whichwe mayadd that passage of Ignatius, " let us no longer sabbatise, but keep the Lord's day, or live according to the Lord's-life,'on which day our life arose by him: " Or as it is more fully expressed in bis interpolated epistle, " instead of sabbatising, let every one that loves Christ keep the Lord's dayas a festival, the dayon which he arose, the supreme of all days, on which our life arose, and there was a victoryobtained aver death in orby Christ." " It is granted, that the eastern churches, in compliance with the Jewish converts who were numerous in those parts sometimes at least, performedon the seventh day, the same public religious services that they did on the first day, observing both the one and the other as a festival : But on the contrary, some of the western churches fasted on Saturday, thatthey might not seem to observe any sabbath with the Jews." Thus far this learned writer : other testimonies have beenadduced by other authors, and particularly that of Theo- polus of Antioch, " the third day, whichtaking its name from the resurrect. tion ofthe Lord, iscalled theLord's day, isthe first day of the week :" And some later fathers speak more plainly still. There have beenindeed some re- marks upon two orthree of these citations, which may render the force of theargument, drawn from them, a little doubtful ; but most of these testi monies are soplain, that theycannot well be answered, nor fairly turned to any other cause.
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