“The Christian as well as the Jew, after six days spent in his own works, is to sanctify the seventh, that he may profess himself thereby a servant of God, the Creator of heaven and earth.  For the quotum the Jew and Christian agree; but in designation of the day they differ.  For the Christian chooseth for his holy day that which, with the Jew, was the first day of the week, and calls it the Lord’s day, that he might thereby profess himself a servant of that God who, on the morning of that day, vanquished Satan, the spiritual Pharaoh, and redeemed us from our spiritual thraldom by raising Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead; begetting us, instead of an earthly Canaan, to an inheritance incorruptible in the heavens.  The Christian, by the day he hallows, professes himself a Christian.  The Jew and Christian make their designation of their day on like ground: the Jews, the memorial day of their deliverance from the temporal Eqypt and temporal Pharaoh; the Christians, the memorial day of their deliverance from the spiritual Egypt and spiritual Pharaoh.”
~ Joseph Mede 1586-1639    (From Horatius Bonar’s Words Old and New)

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