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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27

The Rev. P. Heylin, D.D., Sub-Dean of Westminster

The Rev. P. Heylin, D.D., Sub-Dean of Westminster.

The Sabbath was not instituted in the beginning of the world. No Sabbath was kept from the Creation to the Flood. Neither was it kept from the Flood to Moses. Nothing is to be found in Scripture touching the keeping of Sunday. In the fourth century, from the time of Constantine to that of St. Augustine, Sunday was not taken for a Sabbath. Neither was it regarded as such during the next six centuries. The Lord's Day had no such command as the Sabbath, that it should be sanctified, but was left plainly to God's people to pitch on this or any other for the public use. And being taken up amongst them, and made a day of meeting in the congregation for religious exercises, yet for 300 years there was neither law to bind them to it, nor any rest from labour or from worldly business regarded upon it.—The History of the Sabbath,. London, 1636.