“The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Ps. 118:22-24
“Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst…”
Jn. 20:19
“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them…”
Acts 20:7
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Order of Contents
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Intro
Hyde, Daniel – ‘Why do Christians Worship on Sunday?’ (2014) 7 paragraphs
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Articles
1500’s
Musculus, Wolfgang – ‘The error of the [Saturday] Sabbataries is refuted, Gen. 2’ in Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563), 4th Commandment, folio 66.a
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587), 4th Commandment, Of the Sabbath
5. How the Sabbath belongs unto Us
. Objections Against the Abrogating of the Ceremonial Sabbath
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1700’s
Edwards, Jonathan – ‘The Perpetuity & Change of the Sabbath’ a sermon on 1 Cor. 16:1-2, 58 paragraphs
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1800’s
Dabney, Robert – ‘From The Seventh Day To The First: A Brief Look At The History Of The Sabbath Day vs. The Lord’s Day’ no date 12 paragraphs
Why do we worship on the first day of the week instead of the seventh? Because scripture requires it. Read this to learn more.
Hodge, A.A. – ‘Sabbath, The Day Changed: The Sabbath Preserved’ 39 paragraphs
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1900’s
Schwertley, Brian – The Sabbath is Binding in the New Covenant Era & Theological Reasons for First Day Observance (1996) 23 paragraphs
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2000’s
Batzig, Nick – ‘The Theological Significance of the 8th Day’ (2014) 11 paragraphs
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Books
1600’s
Warren, Edmund – The Jew’s Sabbath Antiquated & the Lord’s Day Instituted by Divine Authority. Or the Change of the Sabbath from the Last to the First Day of the Week, Asserted & Maintained by Scripture-Arguments & Testimonies of the Best Antiquity, with a Refutation of Sundry Objections Raised Against it. The Sum of All Comprized in Seven Positions (London: Maxwel, 1659) 262 pp.
Ives, Jeremiah – Saturday No Sabbath, or the Seventh-Day Sabbath Proved to be of No Force… in the times of the Gospel… being an account of several publique disputations… (London: White, 1659) 238 pp.
Collinges, John – A Modest Plea for the Lord’s Day, or rather the Sum of the Plea made by Divines for the Lord’s Day as the Christian Sabbath, against those who contend for the Old Sabbath of the Seventh day in order from the Creation (London: 1669)
Bunyan, John – [5] Questions about the Nature & Perpetunity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath & Proof that the First Day of the Week is the True Christian-Sabbath (London: Ponder, 1685) 144 pp.
Trosse, George – The Lord’s Day Vindicated, or the First Day of the Week the Christian Sabbath, in Answer to Mr. Bampfield’s Plea for the Seventh Day in his Enquiry whether Jesus be Jehovah and gave the moral law? And whether the Fourth Command be Repealed or Altered? (London: Clement, 1692) 134 ToC
Wallis, John – A Defense of the Christian Sabbath in answer to a Treatise of Mr. Thomas Bampfield Pleading for a Saturday-Sabbath 1693 85 pages
Wallis was a scribe at the Westmisnter Assembly.
Keach was a calvinistic baptist.
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2000’s
Kayser, Phillip – Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath (1995) 51 pp.
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“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store…”
1 Cor. 16:1-2
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”
Rev. 1:10
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