"such as make alterations in religion, different from the first institution, are intolerable busy-bodies, that will not let God alone with his own affairs. Vain man would be wiser than his Maker, and be dabbling in that which is His sole prerogative" Stephen Charnock, Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God, in Works, II (Nichol, 1864), p. 82..
“they have not acted incorrectly, who have abolished all days except ‘the Lord’s Day’”; “that it is more agreeable with the first institution” [that only the Lord’s day be observed] (Jerome Zanchius, Omnium Operum Theologicorum, Tomus Quartus [Genevæ: Samuel Crispin, 1617–19], Liber Primus in Quartum Præceptum, 678, 679).
“Christ is born, is circumcised, dies, rises again for us every day in the preaching of the Gospel.” Lambert Danæu, Ad tomum I. et II. controversiarum Roberti Bellarmini responsio (Joannes le Preux, 1598), 1519–1520. Translated and cited in George Gillespie, Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies (1637; critical edition, 2013), p. 50.
“they have not acted incorrectly, who have abolished all days except ‘the Lord’s Day’”; “that it is more agreeable with the first institution” [that only the Lord’s day be observed] (Jerome Zanchius, Omnium Operum Theologicorum, Tomus Quartus [Genevæ: Samuel Crispin, 1617–19], Liber Primus in Quartum Præceptum, 678, 679).
“Christ is born, is circumcised, dies, rises again for us every day in the preaching of the Gospel.” Lambert Danæu, Ad tomum I. et II. controversiarum Roberti Bellarmini responsio (Joannes le Preux, 1598), 1519–1520. Translated and cited in George Gillespie, Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies (1637; critical edition, 2013), p. 50.
