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398 bApor.r. ;o. Mos chrifli- anuu, &c. It is .the manner of Chritiians to call it :. the Lords Day, Bedá, in Luc.cap. 41. The Praf.iice o f Pietie. that none kept thofe meetings but Chriflians, who onely are called Difciples, 417. r r. 26.but at Philippi , whereas yet there were no Difciples. Paul is faid to goe on their Sabbath day, to the place where the Iewes and their Profelytes were wont to pray , and there preached vnto them,A1, i 6. 12, 13. So that it; is as cleere as the Sunne ,. that it was the Chritiaeis vfuall man- ner, to a paffè ouer the Iezrijh feuenth day , and to keepe the Sabbath, and their holy mee- tings on the firf day of the wecke. And why Both S. Iohrs call this the Lords Day; but be- caufe it was a. day knowne to be 'generally Kept holy, to the honour of the Lord lefus (who rote from death to life vpon that day) throughout all the Chur- ches which the Apofiles plane ted ? Which S. ./oho calleth the b Lords day ; the rather to flirre vp Chriflians to a thaBkefull re- mem--

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