SUNDAY, Dies Dominicus, the Rev. i. 10.Lord’s Day. It is mention’d in the Revelations; I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day. From the very Beginning the Day of the Resurrection of our Saviour, which happen’d to be the Day after the Sabbath, was honour’d by the Christians in a very particular Manner. And to preserve the Remembrance of this Day, so glorious to Jesus Christ, and beneficial to his Church, the Apostles thought fit to transfer to the Lord’s Day, that Rest that was observed by the Jews upon their Sabbath. St. BarnabasBarnab. Ep. p. 56. in his Epistle says, that we celebrate the eighth Day with Joy, in Memory of the Resurrection of our Saviour, because it was on this Day that he arose again and ascended into Heaven. St. Ignatius the Martyr, in his Letter to the Magnesians, would have us honour this Day of the Lord, this Day of the Resurrection, as the first and most excellent of Days. St. Justin Martyr1 says, that the Christians assembled together on this Day, because it was the Day of the Creation of the World, and of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The same thing may be seen in Irenæus2, Tertullian3, Origen4, and in the Constitutions ascribed to the Apostles.
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