[583] Neander, p. 186.

[584] Ancient Church History, part i. div. 2, A. D. 100-312, sect. 69.

[585] Enquiry into the Constitution of the Primitive Church, part ii. chap. vii. sect. 11. See also Schaff’s “History of the Christian Church,” vol. i. p. 373.

[586] Epistle of Barnabas, chap. xv.

[587] Justin Martyr’s First Apology, chap. lxvii.

[588] Lost Writings of Irenæus, Fragments 7 and 50.

[589] Book of the Laws of Countries.

[590] Tertullian’s Apology, sect. 16.

[591] On Idolatry, chap. xiv.

[592] Hist. Sab. part 2, chap. viii. sect. 13.

[593] On Prayer, chap. xxiii.

[594] De Corona, sect. 3.

[595] Ad Nationes, book i. chap. xiii.

[596] Canon 15.

[597] Ante-Nicene Library, vol. xiv. p. 322.

[598] Apostolical Constitutions, book ii. sect. 7, par. 59.

[599] Id. book v. sect. ii. par. 10.

[600] Id. book v. sect. iii. par. 20.

[601] Epistle to the Magnesians (longer form), chap. ix.

[602] Syriac Documents, p. 38.

[603] Epistle of Barnabas, chap. xv.

[604] Justin’s First Apology, chap. lxvii.

[605] Id. Ib.

[606] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. xxiv.

[607] Id. chap. xli.

[608] Clement’s Miscellanies, book v. chap. xiv.

[609] De Corona, sect. 4.

[610] Origen’s Opera, Tome ii. p. 158, Paris, A. D. 1733, “Quod si ex Divinis Scripturis hoc constat, quod die Dominica Deus pluit manna de cælo et in Sabbato non pluit, intelligant Judæi jam tunc prælatam esse Dominicam nostram Judaico Sabbato.”

[611] Cyprian’s Epistle, No. lviii. sect. 4.

[612] Peter’s Canons, No. xv.

[613] Apostolical Constitutions, book vii. sect. ii. par. 23.

[614] Epistle to the Magnesians, chap. ix.

[615] Syriac Documents, p. 38.

[616] Id. Ib.

[617] Id. Ib.

[618] Id. Ib.

[619] Fragment 7.

[620] Tertullian on Prayer, chap. xxiii.

[621] De Corona, sect. 3.

[622] Origen against Celsus, book viii. chap. xxii.

[623] Instructions of Commodianus, sect. 75.

[624] Apostolical Constitutions, book v. sect. 3, par. 20.

[625] De Corona, sects. 3 and 4.

[626] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. x.

[627] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. xi.

[628] Id. chap. xii.

[629] Tertullian on Idolatry, chap. xiv.

[630] Id. Ib.

[631] Tertullian Against the Jews, chap. iv.

[632] Epistle of Barnabas, chap. xv.

[633] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. xii.

[634] Id. chap. xviii.

[635] See the third chapter of this History.

[636] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. xxiii.

[637] Id. chap. xxix.

[638] Id. chap. xi.

[639] Lost Writings of Irenæus, Fragment 7.

[640] Against Heresies, book iv. chap. viii. sect. 2.

[641] Id. book iv. chap. xvi. sect. 1.

[642] Irenæus against Heresies, book v. chap. xxxiii. sect. 2.

[643] Id. book. v. chap. xxviii. sect. 3.

[644] Ex. 31:17; Eze. 20:12, 20.

[645] Isa. 66:22, 23; Dan. 7:18, 27.

[646] Answer to the Jews, chap. ii.

[647] Tertullian against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[648] Compare his works as follows: Answer to the Jews, chaps. ii. iii. iv. vi.; Against Marcion, book i. chap. xx.; book v. chaps. iv. xix. with De Anima, chap. xxxvii.; and, On Modesty, chap. v.

[649] Isa. 1:13, 14.

[650] Answer to the Jews, chap. iv.; Against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[651] Isa. 56:2; 58:13.

[652] Answer to the Jews, chap. iv.; Against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[653] Against Marcion, book ii. chap. xxi.

[654] Against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[655] De Principiis, book iv. chap. i. sect. 17.

[656] Ex. 16:29; Lev. 23:3.

[657] Creation of the World, sect. 4.

[658] Id. sect. 5.

[659] Id. Ib.

[660] Creation of the World, sect. 5.

[661] Irenæus Against Heresies, book iv. chap. xv. sect. 1.

[662] Jer. 31:33; Rom. 7:21-25; 8:1-7.

[663] Irenæus Against Heresies, book iv. chap. xvi. sect. 4.

[664] Matt. chapters 5, 6, 7.

[665] Theophilus to Autolycus, book ii. chap. xxvii.

[666] Id. book iii. chap. ix.

[667] Id. Ib.

[668] De Anima, chap. xxxvii.

[669] On Modesty, chap. v.

[670] Recognitions of Clement, book iii. chap. lv.

[671] Novatian on the Jewish Meats, chap. iii.

[672] Apostolical Constitutions, book ii. sect. 4, par. 36.

[673] Id. book vi. sect. 4, par. 19.

[674] Epistle of Barnabas, chap. xv.

[675] Irenæus Against Heresies, book v. chap. xxxiii. sect. 2.

[676] De Anima, chap. xxxvii.

[677] Tertullian Against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[678] Origen Against Celsus, book vi. chap. lxi.

[679] Novatian on the Jewish Meats, chap. iii.

[680] Divine Institutes of Lactantius, book vii. chap. xiv.

[681] Poem on Genesis, Lines 51-53.

[682] Apostolical Constitutions, book vii. sect. 2, par. 36.

[683] Tertullian Against Marcion, book iv. chap. xii.

[684] Id. Ib.

[685] Tertullian Against Marcion, book iv, chap. xii.

[686] Disputation with Manes, sect. 42.

[687] Dialogue with Trypho, chap. xlvii.

[688] Id. Ib.

[689] Clement’s Miscellanies, book vi. chap. xvi.

[690] Id. Ib.

[691] Compare Clement of Alexandria, vol. ii. pp. 386-890, Ante-Nicene library edition, or the Miscellanies of Clement, book vi. chap. xvi. with Bohn’s edition of Philo, vol. i. pp. 3, 4, 29, 30, 31, 32, 54, 55; vol. iii. p. 159; vol. iv. p. 452.

[692] Bohn’s edition of Philo Judæus, vol. i. p. 4.

[693] Tertullian on Prayer, chap. xxiii.

[694] Origen’s Opera, Tome 2, p. 358, Paris, 1733, “Quæ est autem festivitas Sabbati nisi illa dequa Apostolus dicit, ‘relinqueretur ergo Sabbatismus,’ hoc est, Sabbati observatio, ‘populo Dei’? Relinquentes ergo Judaicas Sabbati observationes, qualis debeat esse Christiano Sabbati observatio, videamus. Die Sabbati nihil ex omnibus mundi actibus oportet operari. Si ergo desinas ab omnibus sæcularibus operibus, et nihil mundanum geras, sed spiritalibus operibus vaces, ad ecclesiam convenias, lectionibus divinis et tractatibus aurem præbeas, et de cœlestibus cogites, de futura spe sollicitudinem geras, venturum judicium præ oculis habeas, non respicias ad præ sentia et visibilia, sed ad invisibilia et futura, hæc est observatio Sabbati Christiani.”—Origenis in Numeras Homilia 23.

[695] Epistle to the Magnesians (longer form) chap. ix.

[696] Ancient Church, p. 212.

[697] Historical Commentaries, cent. 1. sect. 51.

[698] Apostolical Constitutions, book ii. sect. 4, par. 36.

[699] Id. Ib.

[700] Id. book vii. sect. 2, par. 23.

[701] Id. book vii. sect. 2, par. 36.

[702] Apostolical Constitutions, book ii, sec. 4, par. 36.

[703] Id. book viii. sect. 4, par. 33.

[704] Id. book vii. sect. 2, par. 36.

[705] Victorinus says, “Let the sixth day become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe any Sabbath with the Jews.”—On the Creation of the World, sect. 4. And Constantine says, “It becomes us to have nothing in common with the perfidious Jews.”— Socrates’ Eccl. Hist. book v. chap. xxii.

[706] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 189.

[707] Morality of the Fourth Commandment, p. 9, London, 1641.

[708] 1 Cor. 5:6-8.

[709] Eccl. Hist. vol. i. chap. ii. sect. 30.

[710] Eccl. Hist. book i. cent. 1, part ii. chap. iv. sect. 4. Dr. Murdock’s translation is more accurate than that above by Maclaine. He gives it thus: “Moreover, those congregations, which either lived intermingled with Jews, or were composed in great measure of Jews, were accustomed also to observe the seventh day of the week, as a sacred day: for doing which, the other Christians taxed them with no wrong.”

[711] Id. margin.

[712] See chap. xiv. of this History.

[713] Ancient Christianity Exemplified, chap. xxvi. sect. 2.

[714] Anc. Christ. Exem. chap. xxvi. sect. 2.

[715] Id. Ib.

[716] Id. Ib.

[717] Ductor Dubitantium, part i. book ii. chap. ii. rule 6, sect. 51.

[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:—

[728] Encyc. Brit. art. Sunday, seventh edition, 1842.

[729] Encyc. Am. art. Sabbath.

[730] Eccl. Hist. cent. iv. part ii. chap. iv. sect. 5.

[731] Chap. xiv.

[732] Duct. Dubitant. part i. book ii. chap. ii. rule 6, sect. 59.

[733] Dialogues on the Lord’s Day, p. 233.

[734] Examination of the Six Texts, p. 291.

[735] Cox’s Sabbath Laws, &c. pp. 280, 281. He quotes The Modern Sabbath Examined.

[736] Hessey’s Bampton Lectures, p. 60.

[737] History of Christianity, book iii. chap. i.

[738] Id. book iii. chap. iv.

[739] These dates are worthy of marked attention. See Blair’s Chronological Tables, p. 193, ed. 1856; Rosse’s Index of Dates, p. 830.

[740] Imp. Constantinus A. Ad Maximum. Si quid de Palatio Nostro, aut ceteris operibus publicis, degustatum fulgore esse constiterit, retento more veteris observantiae. Quid portendat, ob Haruspicibus requiratur, et diligentissime scriptura collecta ad Nostram Scientiam referatur. Ceteris etiam usurpandae huius consuetudinis licentia tribuenda: dummodo sacrificiis domesticis abstineant, quae specialiter prohibita sunt. Eam autem denunciationem adque interpretationem, quae de tactu Amphitheatri scriba est, de qua ad Heraclianum Tribunum, et Magistrum Officiorum scripseras, ad nos scias esse perlatum. Dat. xvi. Kal. Jan. Serdicae Acc. viii. Id. Mart. Crispo ii. & Constantino ii. C. C. Coss. 821. Cod. Theodos. xvi. 10, 1.—Library of Harvard College.

[741] See Jortin’s Eccl. Hist. vol. i. sect. 31; Milman’s Hist. Christianity, book iii. chap. i.

[742] See Webster; for an ancient record of the act, see Eze. xxi. 19-22.

[743] Historical Commentaries, cent. iv. sect. 7.

[744] Dec. and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xx.

[745] Marsh’s Eccl. Hist. period iii. chap. v.

[746] Dec. and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xviii.

[747] Sunday and the Mosaic Sabbath, p. 4, published by R. Groombridge & Sons, London.

[748] See chap. xviii.

[749] Omnium vero dierum per septimanam appellationes (ut Solis, Lunae, Martis, etc.), mutasse in ferias: ut Polydorus (li. 6, c. 5) indicat. Mataphrastes vero, nomina dierum Hebraeis usitata retinuisse eum, tradit; solius primi diei appellatione mutata, quem Dominicum dixit. Historia Ecclesiastica per M. Ludovicum Lucium, cent. iv. cap. x. pp. 739, 740, Ed. Basilea, 1624. Library of Andover Theological Seminary. The Ecclesiastical History of Lucius is simply the second edition of the famous “Magdeburg Centuries,” which was published under his supervision.

[750] Quoted in Elliott’s Horæ Apocalypticæ, fifth edition, vol. iv. p. 603.

[751] McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. iv. p. 506.

[752] Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. iii. sect. 12.

[753] Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. iii. sect. 1.

[754] Id. Ib.

[755] Dec. and Fall, chap. xxviii.

[756] Hist. Sab. part ii. chap. iii sect. 5.

[757] Eccl. Hist. book i. chap. iv.

[758] Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms, quoted in Cox’s Sabbath Literature, vol. i. p. 361; also in Justin Edward’s Sabbath Manual, pp. 125-127.

[759] Id. Ib.

[760] Id. Ib.

[761] Eusebius’ Life of Constantine, 3, 33, quoted in Elliott’s Horæ Apocalypticæ, vol. i. p. 256.