...obtained from experience, his progenitors, or Jehovah himself. We shall notice — (3.) The Change of the Sabbath from the Seventh to the First day of the week. — And First, we contend for it from Scripture Testimony. — The work of creation, by the Father,...

...bush. Hence, those who deny the duty may be said to " err, not knowing the scriptures." The change of the Sabbath, from the seventh to the first day of the week, is another instance of this kind of scripture proof. The practice of all the churches, for about eighteen...

...responses, is also appropriately enforced ; and the reasons of transferring the religious solemnity of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week arc easily explained. The subject is trite ; but the method and style are admirably adapted to a congregation...

...abolished some parts of the law, such as circumcision; that they have changed some of it, as the alteration of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, and retained some of it, as suited their fancy. That they have done all this without auy direction...

...when he foreknew, with absolute certainty, that his people would, under the new dispensation, transfer the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week ; why was no guard thrown in to prevent such a transfer ? Why, but because God willed that it should...

...Christian sabbath, and proved its perpetuity to all generations ; we now proceed to prove the change of the sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. This also, ;is well as the establishment and continuation of the Christian sabbath, is decided, Heb....

...testimony by which we establish the canon of Scripture, the validity of infant baptism, and the change of the sabbath from the seventh to the first day. of the week. Q. What is meant by the power which the Church possesses of making canons, or laws for the behaviour...

...Lord's day. If it be asked, whether any positive law or statute can be produced, authorizing the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, we reply, that a law may arise from, and be constituted by, facts, no less plainly, and stometimes...

...Christ signally honoured that day, which affords at least a strong presumptive argument, of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. Again Rev. i. 10. the first day of the week is called the Lord's day. " I was in the Spirit on the...

...learn on all sides, how your days ara 4 Saurin ia here brief on the masons assigned for the change of the sabbath, from the seventh to the first day of the week. The reader, however, may see them at large in the second volume of Dr. Lightfnot's works, and In the...