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Puritan Board Junior
Friends,
Dr. Edwards makes the following statement:
"Hence the fact that their persecutors, when they wished to know whether men were Christians, were accustomed to put to them this question, viz., `Dominicum servasti?' -`Hast thou kept the Lord's day?' If they had they were Christians. This was the badge of their Christianity, in distinction from Jews and pagans. And if they said they had, and would not recant, they must be put to death. And what, when they continued steadfast, was their answer? `Christianus sum; intermittere non possum;'-`I am a Christian; I cannot omit it.' It is a badge of my religion, and the man who assumes it must of course keep the Lord's day, because it is the will of his Lord; and should he abandon it, he would be an apostate from his religion."
I LOVE the above quote from Edwards.
But today I just ran across this article that annoyed me:
http://www.nisbett.com/sabbath/history/hos15.htm
Unfortunately, I don't know enough early church history to refute this article.
Does anyone on here know if we can convincingly demonstrate that the question, "Dominicum Servasti", was actually used in the first few hundred years of the church? Or is this really a hoax like the above article says?
Please help!
Thank you,
Joseph
Dr. Edwards makes the following statement:
"Hence the fact that their persecutors, when they wished to know whether men were Christians, were accustomed to put to them this question, viz., `Dominicum servasti?' -`Hast thou kept the Lord's day?' If they had they were Christians. This was the badge of their Christianity, in distinction from Jews and pagans. And if they said they had, and would not recant, they must be put to death. And what, when they continued steadfast, was their answer? `Christianus sum; intermittere non possum;'-`I am a Christian; I cannot omit it.' It is a badge of my religion, and the man who assumes it must of course keep the Lord's day, because it is the will of his Lord; and should he abandon it, he would be an apostate from his religion."
I LOVE the above quote from Edwards.
But today I just ran across this article that annoyed me:
http://www.nisbett.com/sabbath/history/hos15.htm
Unfortunately, I don't know enough early church history to refute this article.
Does anyone on here know if we can convincingly demonstrate that the question, "Dominicum Servasti", was actually used in the first few hundred years of the church? Or is this really a hoax like the above article says?
Please help!
Thank you,
Joseph