[796] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, pp. 263, 264.
[797] The Lord’s Day, p. 58.
[798] Dictionary of Chronology, p. 813, art. Sunday.
[799] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 265.
[800] Id. pp. 265, 266; Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. iv. sect. 7.
[801] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 68.
[802] Historical and Practical Discourse on the Lord’s Day, p. 174.
[803] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 282.
[804] Fleury, Hist. Eccl. Tome viii. Livre xxxvi. sect. 22; Heylyn’s Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. v. sect. 1. Dr. Twisse, however, asserts that the pope speaks of two classes. He gives Gregory’s words as follows: “Relation is made unto me that certain men of a perverse spirit, have sowed among you some corrupt doctrines contrary to our holy faith; so as to forbid any work to be done on the Sabbath day: these men we may well call the preachers of Antichrist.... Another report was brought unto me; and what was that? That some perverse persons preach among you, that on the Lord’s day none should be washed. This is clearly another point maintained by other persons, different from the former.”—Morality of the Fourth Commandment, pp. 19, 20. If Dr. Twisse is right, the Sabbath-keepers in Rome about the year 600 were not chargeable with the Sunday observance above mentioned.
[805] The idea is suggested by the language of an anonymous first-day writer of the seventeenth century, Irenæus Philalethes, in a work entitled “Sabbato-Dominica,” pref. p. 11, London, 1643.