Religious Liberty Library (Volume 2, Nos. 7-19) (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. 1893. Excerpt: ... Touching the other principle of Protestantism, it is well known to all that the papacy has always made use of the civil power when available, to force her decrees upon the consciences of men, and curses the doctrine of separation of Church and State.1 On which of these two platforms does American Protestantism stand? Let us apply the test to the great Protestant denominations of America and decide the question. The word of God says: --"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." In the face of this plain command, the Methodist Episcopal Church, while claiming to be Protestant, observes Sunday, the first day of the week. This she does, though admitting in the following quotations that there is no command for the change: --"This law is spiritual and perfect, extending to all the inward creations and outward actions of men, and can never be changed or annulled. Ps. 19: 7, 8; Prov. 30: 5, 6; Rom. 8: 12, 14; Rev. 22: 18, 19. "This seventh-day Sabbath was strictly observed by Christ and his apostles previous to his crucifixion. Mark 6:2; Luke 4: 16, 31; 13: 10; Acts 1: 12-14; 13: 14, 42, 44; 17:2; 18: 4. "Jesus, after his resurrection, changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. "When Jesus gave instruction for this change we are not told, but very likely during the time when he spake to his apostles of ...