Well it sounds me like these quotes are saying that Christians worshiped on Sunday rather than Saturday, not because of a command from God, or a change of the Sabbath, but because that's the day the Church has always met together on for worship.
And that's true. Christians have, since apostolic times, gathered together on the first day of the week, two thousand years of Christian history--including the New Testament--shows us this.
We don't gather together on the Lord's Day because there is a divine command to do so, rather we do so voluntarily and freely out of reverence to Christ.
-CryptoLutheran
This quote seems pretty clear:
Q. Have you any other proofs that they(Protestants) are not guided by the Scripture?
A. Yes; so many, that we cannot admit more than a mere specimen into this small work. They reject much that is clearly contained in Scripture, and profess more that is nowhere discoverable in that Divine Book.
Q. Give some examples of both?
A. They should, if the Scripture were their only rule, wash the feet of one another, according to the command of Christ, in the 13th chap. of St. John; —they should keep, not the Sunday, but the Saturday, according to the commandment, "Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath-day;" for this commandment has not, in Scripture, been changed or abrogated;...
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—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 101 Imprimatuer
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; —she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the Seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.
—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 174
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Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
—Rev. Peter Geiermann C.SS.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50
There are a lot of similar quotes.
God made pretty clear which day is his Holy day from creation Genesis 2:3 and repeated in the commandments Exodus 20:8-11 and confirmed by Jesus Mark 2:27 And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
The question is should we follow man or Christ?
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