[718] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 66.
[719] A Treatise of the Sabbath Day, containing a “Defense of the Orthodoxal Doctrine of the Church of England against Sabbatarian Novelty,” p. 8. It was written in 1635 at the command of the king in reply to Brabourne, a minister of the established church, whose work, entitled “A Defense of that most Ancient and Sacred Ordinance of God’s, the Sabbath Day,” was dedicated to the king with a request that he would restore the Bible Sabbath! See the preface to Dr. White’s Treatise.
[720] Dec. and Fall, chap. xv.
[721] See [chap. x.]
[722] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 67.
[723] Treatise of the Sabbath Day, p. 8.
[724] Antiquities of the Christian Church, book xvi. chap. vi. sect. 2.
[725] Page 280. Cox here quotes the work, entitled “The Modern Sabbath Examined.”
[726] Learned Treatise of the Sabbath, p. 77, Oxford, 1631.
[727] This edict is the original fountain of first-day authority, and in many respects answers to the festival of Sunday, what the fourth commandment is to the Sabbath of the Lord. The original of this edict may be seen in the library of Harvard College, and is as follows:—