Divers English Puritans oppose, against this point, that the observation of the first day is proved out of Scripture, where it is said, the first day of the week.

Acts 20:7; I Cor.

16:2; Rev.1:10.

Have they not spun a fair thread in quoting these places?
If we should produce no better for purgatory, and prayers for the dead, invocation of the saints, and the like, they might have good cause, indeed, to laugh us to scorn; for where is it written that these were Sabbath days in which those meetings were kept?
Or where is it ordained they should be always observed?
Or, which is the sum of all, where is it decreed that the observation of the first day should abrogate or abolish the sanctifying of the seventh day, which God commanded everlastingly to be kept holy?
_Not_ one of those is expressed in the written word of God." In the "Catholic Catechism of Christian Religion," on the subject of the third (fourth) commandment, we find these questions and answers:-- "_Ques._ What does God ordain by this commandment?
"_Ans._ He ordains that we sanctify, in a special manner, this day on which he rested from the labor of creation.
"_Q._ What is this day of rest?
"_A._ The seventh day of the week, or Saturday; for he employed six days in creation, and rested on the seventh.Gen.

2:2; Heb.