...CHAPTER I. Page. Origin of the Sabbath, 1 CHAPTER II. Perpetuity of the Sabbath, 4 CHAPTER III. Change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, 10 CHAPTER IV. The Sabbath made for man, ,15 CHAPTER V. Importance of the Sabbath, in its bearings...

...a legal and self-righteous temper. SIXTH. Its change to the first day of the week. 1. The change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, is a question entirely distinct from that of the perpetual obligation of the Sabbath. 2. If the evidence...

...which has succeeded to its place. The last supposition, if correct, positively authorizes the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week." The passage, Mat. xxiv. 20, " But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath...

...is unable to find a solitary precept or example in which Christians are expressly taught to change the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, or to observe the first day as holy time. What does he find 1 Christ rose from the dead on the first...

...conviction, that it is a way set before them by God. And if God's mind, in respect of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, be not revealed to us in so many express terms, but rather indicated to us throughout Scripture, so...

...promulgated. The Sabbatarians, however, think these reasons unsatisfactory, and assert that the chancre of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week ; was effected by Constantine, upon his conversion to the Christian religion. The following propositions...

...repeated, that the evidence in favour of Episcopacy is the same as that by which we justify the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, and the same as that by which we ascertain the authenticity of the Scriptures themselves. We have no...

...Lord has the solo power of our time. 2. That the wisdom of God is conspicuously seen in the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. 3. That we ought to acquiesce in this change, and remember the resurrection of Christ from the dead,...

...these interviews, among the things pertaining to the kingdom, Christ either authorized a change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, or he did not. If he did not, the reason was, (John xvi. 12, 13,) " I have yet many things to say unto...

...the arguments brought forward in vindication of the practice of infant baptism, and of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. When an inference from texts of Scripture is disputed, an acquaintance with the practice of the early...