The Obligation of the Sabbath; A Discussion Between REV. J. Newton Brown, and Wm. B. Taylor (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... referring to that of David, what is it, if it signifies not that the other rests remain not? There remains, therefore, a rest prefigured by the seventh day wd by the rest of Canaan, though they are fled and gone." (Essay on the Sabbath, ques. iv.) "One man esteemeth one day above another; another Mtecmeth every day alike. Let every man be fully pervaded in his own mind."--(Rom. xiv. 5.) " But candidly Wickuf translates the passage: "Therfore the Saboth is left to the people of God; for he that is entrid into hise rcste, restide of to werkis as also God of hise; therefore, haaste we to entre into that reste, that no man falle into the same ensampls of unbileeue." Tho Epistle to the Romans, destructive to Sabbatarianism. now," says J. N. B., " what is Paul urging there 1" (p. 80.) A "candid" answer to tliia ingenuous question will leave the Sabbatarian no inch of Bible ground to stand upon Ait present, space will not permit the critical examination of this text which its importance deserves. I only remark, that the "momentous distinction" of my friend is a simple "fancy." Holy days and unholy meats are put, by Paul, in exactly the same predicament--of observances absolutely indifferent to the gospel Christian.f If J. N. B. can reconcile a "Divine authority," enjoining the estimation of the Sabbath above other days, with the Divine authority indisputably given in Paul's unqualified language " strikes equally against the Christian's 'Lord's day, ' as against the Sabbath of the Decalogue. And where, then, let me ask, is there any law, or institution for public worship in the New Testament?" J. N. B. (p. 19.) " The law of the Sabbath being thus repealed, that no p...