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Section III. On the Public Institutions y Ordinances and Worship oj the Church. · Part 9

When it is said, “And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread:” It does not import, that breaking bread was the only or chief thing for which they came together on that day; for this was not true, as appears by the relation. Nor does it follow from those words, that they always came together on the first day of the week to break bread. It is only said, that on that first day, they did so. They might, consistent with this, come together on many other first days of the week, not to break bread, but to attend on other parts of public worship, without partaking of the Lord’s supper.