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The "charge" of violation not new. " Sabbath-breaking" unreproved. 



what bj this positive ordinance ^was not lawful/ know that 

 I am Lord of the Institution ! And this is my warrant for 

 what I have done." 



I sincerely trust that J. N. B. will now be "less surprised" 

 at the conclusion arrived at than he was on its former an- 

 nouncement. The passages in Matt. xii. 2, 3Iark ii. 24, 

 John v. 10, 16, 18, ix. 16, must have escaped his memory, 

 when he observed : " This is the first time I remember to 

 have seen ' him who knew no sin' charged with a ^ studied 

 and repeated violation' of the law." While thus confirming 

 the charge, I hope I shall be relieved from the imputation of 

 exhibiting any " malice prepense." 



IV. The Fourth Proposition, that the observance of the 

 Sabbath is never once enjoined or even encouraged by the 

 New Testament writers, and that, on the other hand, "Sab- 

 bath-breaking'^ is never once condenined by them, "has 

 more show of truth," says my obliging friend, " than any of 

 the preceding." Considering upon what impregnahle founda- 

 tions of Scriptural authority these have been established, 

 such an encomium is as satisfactory as it is ingenuous ; and 

 leaves but little occasion for any further illustration of this 

 position. A single passage has been diffidently suggested by 

 J. N. B. It is where Paul reminds Timothy that " the law" 

 is made "for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly 

 and for sinners, for unholy and profaneJ^ (1 Tim. i. 9.) 

 After so liberal a concession, courtesy alone would forbid my 

 being captious with his quotation. I therefore leave it, con- 

 gratulating him on its applicability, and wishing him joy of 

 all its deductions. 



The comprehensiveness of the subject has already so ex- 

 tended the present communication, that I am compelled re- 

 luctantly to defer the consideration of the two concluding 

 Propositions to another occasion. 



W. B. T. 

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