The Lord's day: every day, say some, is the Lord's day. Indeed
this, for discourse' sake, may he granted; but strictly, no day can
so properly be called the Lord's day, as this first day of the week;
for that no day of the week, or of the year, has those hadges of the
Lord's glory upon it, nor such divine grace put upon it, as his
first day of the week.
There is nothing, as I know of, that bears this title but the Lord's
supper, and this day. And since Christians count it an abuse to
allegorize the first, let them also be ashamed to fantasticalize the
last.
The Lord's day is doubtless the day in which he rose from the dead.
To be sure, it is not the old seventh day; for from the day that he
arose, to the end of the Bible, we find not that he did hang so much
as one twist of glory upon that; but this day is beautified with
glory upon glory, and that both by the Father and the Son, by the
prophets, and those that were raised from the dead thereon:
therefore this day must be more than the rest.
As for the seventh day, that is gone to its grave with the signs and
shadows of the Old Testament. Yea, and has such a dash left upon it
by apostolical authority, that is is enough to make a Christian fly
from it for ever. 2 Cor. 3.
God the Father leaves such a stamp of divine note and honor upon
this day, as he never before did leave upon any, where he saith to
our Lord, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee;" still
having respect to the first day of the week, for that and no other
is the day here intended by the apostle: THIS DAY, saith God, is the
day.
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