History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

and is absolutely decisive. But this is set aside
without answer, and the claim of the first day to
this honorable distinction is substantiated out of the
fathers as follows:--
The term Lord’s Day as a name for the first day
of the week can be traced back through the first
three centuries, from the fathers who lived toward
their close, to the ones next preceding who mention
the first day, and so backward by successive steps
till we come to one who lived in John's time, and
was his disciple; and this disciple of John calls the
first day of the week the Lord’s Day. It follows
therefore that John must have intended the first day
of the week by the term Lord’s Day, but did not
define his meaning because it was familiarly
known by that name in his time. Thus by history
we prove the first day of the week to be the Lord’s
Day of Rev.1:10; and then by Rev.1:10, we prove
the first day of the week to be the sacred day of this
dispensation; for the spirit of inspiration by which
John wrote would not have called the first day by
this name if it were only a human institution, and if
the seventh day was still by divine appointment the
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