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An answer. The Sabbath " made for man :" kcpt by our first parents. 



Law of Marriage, were to say that the words in verse 24th of 

 the same chapter (quoted as divine by Christ, in Marh x. 5 — 9) 

 were a mere anticipation by Moses of a subsequent Jewish 

 law, and therefore that the Law of Marriage was not binding 

 ^^ from the beginning'' of the race, and upon the race at large. 

 4. It is against common sense; for common sense says that 

 any commemorative institution should commence at, or near 

 the time of the event commemorated ; whereas, this supposition 

 of a mere prolepsis leaves '^ a great gulf/^ a vast oblivious 

 chasm of more than two thousand years, between the Creation 

 and the Sabbath by which it was commemorated. And even 

 then, to crown the climax of absurdity, it limits that com- 

 memoration of an event, in which the whole created race are 

 equally interested, to the smallest fraction of that race ! 



From this legitimate mode of interpretation, I trust it will 

 now appear that I proceeded upon no mere '' fancy" in refer- 

 ring the origin of the Sabbath to the day after man's Creation. 

 So much is sure. That it " was made for man," and not for 

 God to keep, is also certain, if (in any case) language has a 

 determinate meaning. The inference of a "sober logician" 

 may now follow, that the first Sabbath was kept by Adam and 

 Eve, in their state of unsullied innocence ; and that it was 

 kept '' the first day after their own creation." This is all I 

 affirmed ; and this I have proved, I think, beyond the possi- 

 bility of reasonable doubt. 



My friend makes merry with the idea of that day, as a day 

 of holy rest for Man. " In the name of wonder," he asks, 

 rest " from what V (p. 22.) It had better become him had he 

 risen upward in thought to the sublime repose of the Creator 

 over his finished work, and remembered that Man was then in 

 perfect communion of spirit with his God. 



It foUows irresistibly, from the fact thus demonstrated, that 

 if the law of the Sabbath was given to our first parents, it 

 was given to all their posterity. Even Paley admits this. 



But " in vain shall we search for even a hint," says my 

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