First Day Sabbath Not of Divine Appointment, with the Opinions of Calvin, Luther [and Others]: A Letter to the Committee of the Edinburgh Emancipation Society

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W.S. Brown, 1846 - 48 páginas

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Página 7 - And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, (ready to depart on the morrow) and continued his speech until midnight.
Página 9 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Página 18 - Christ ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance : but as He Who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation...
Página 13 - for its use' sake, — both to body and soul ! But if anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake, — if anywhere any one sets up its observance upon a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it — to do anything that shall reprove this encroachment on the Christian spirit and liberty.
Página 7 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Página 7 - In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Página 13 - As for' the sabbath, we be lords of the sabbath, and may yet change it into Monday, or any other day, as we see need ; or we may make every TENTH DAY Holy Day only, if we see cause why. Neither was there any cause to change it from the Saturday, save only to put a difference between us and the Jews : neither need we any Holy Day at all, if the people might be taught without it.
Página 12 - that women should cover their heads in the congregation' (1 Cor. xi. 6); 'that the interpreters of Scripture should be heard in order in the Church' (1 Cor. xiv. 27), etc. Such ordinances it behooveth the churches to keep for charity and quietness...
Página 20 - to present ourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service.
Página 13 - We not seeing any ground in Scripture for it, cannot be so superstitious as to believe that either the Jewish Sabbath now continues, or that the first day of the week is the antitype thereof, or the true Christian Sabbath, which, with Calvin, we believe to have a more spiritual sense ; and therefore we know no moral obligation by the Fourth Command or elsewhere to keep the first day of the week more than any other, or any holiness inherent in it.

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