John Trapp on John 20:1

CHAPT. XX.

NOw the Chriſtian Sabbath in honour of Chriſts reſurrection, and therefore called, The Lords day, Revel. 1.10. as the holy Supper is called, The Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 10. as the Saints are called [non-Latin text not transcribed], Kirk, Church. The title of the 24th Pſalm is, A Pſalm of David: To this the Greek addeth, Of the firſt day of the week, meaning that this Pſalm was wont to be ſung in the Temple every firſt day of the week, which now is the Chriſtians Sabbath; and of Chriſt, his Church and Kingdome, and the entertaining of his Goſpel, doth this Pſalm intreat. [non-Latin text not transcribed], &c Igna[illegible: 1 letter] ep. 3 ad Magneſ. Let every one of us keep Sabbath, ſaith Ignatius, in a ſpirituallmanner, rejoycing in the meditation of the law, not in the reſt of the body. And in thoſe Primitive times, when the Queſtion was asked, ervasti Dominicum? Haſt thou kept the Lords-day? the anſwer was returned, Chriſtianus ſum, intermittere non poſſum: I am a Chriſtian, and may not do otherwiſe. See ve[illegible: 1 letter]ſtegan. Al[illegible: 2 letters] numerant, Feria prima, ſecunda, tertia, &c. The Jews gave that honour to their Sabbath, that they named from it all the other daies of the week, as the firſt, ſecond, third day, &c. of the Sabbath, which we from the Heathens (a worſe patern) name Munday, Tueſday, Wedneſday, &c. Ex inſtituto Mercurij Treſmegiſti.