The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of ConnecticutBolles, John R. (John Rogers)
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The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut
Bolles, John R. (John Rogers)
Rogerenes -- History
In page 19 he quotes ... “I was in spirit on the Lord’s day.”...
that is, I was spiritualized on the Lord’s day of his revelation
for that work he employed me in, but here is no account what day
or days it was of the week or month, this God hath not revealed to
us.... But for any to affect it to be on a first day of the week
is presumption, seeing no such name in Scripture was imposed on
the first day of the week in any other place of the Scripture....
In page 27, he quotes Acts 20, 7, “And upon the first day of the
week” ... This text tells us the disciple’s coming together was to
break bread; it does not say to celebrate a Sabbath, or give the
day any pre-eminence above the five other working days ... the
word breaking of bread is used in common eating, Acts 2,
46.—“breaking bread from house to house,”—Christ brake bread to
two of his disciples and also when Christ fed 5000.... And in this
place it is said they came together to break bread, and Paul was
at that time tending a ship, as appears....
But as to the Lord’s Supper, it was always attended at supper
time, ... It was first instituted by Christ at supper ... And
Paul, the Gentile apostle, hath left it on record that he did
deliver it to the Gentiles to be attended in the night, as appears
I Cor. 11, 23.... The Gentile churches attended the time and
season, tho’ they got into a disorderly way of partaking of it,
yet they attended the season ... “For in eating every one taketh
before other his own supper.”... So that we see this coming
together to break bread, on the first day of the week, was not for
preaching (but a feast of charity), for that was attended the
night following (when the young man fell from the loft), nor for
the Lord’s supper.
The following is at the end of the book containing the answer to
Benjamin Wadsworth. The “questions” were written in New London
prison at the time John Rogers was confined there on account of
troubles arising out of the arrest and imprisonment of Sarah Bolles
for a “matter of conscience.”
The following questions were presented as they are underwritten,
but when I saw I could obtain no answer but persecution, I then
presented them to a Superior Court in the colony New London, and
from them to the next General Court in that Colony, and so to the
Elders and Messengers of the churches of the Colony of
Connecticut, requesting of them an answer, upon the consideration
of the Confession of their own Faith and the good counsels there
given, and printed in New London, in the year 1710. And here
follows an account of some part of what I presented to them, taken
out of the Confession of their own Faith.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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