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A Sabbath predicted, in the new creation. Proof of the transfer. 



end with them. I have before cited a prediction of the Mes- 

 siah's resurrection and exaltation (Ps. cxviii. 16 — 26), in 

 which the day of Christian worship is manifestly made to cor- 

 respond to, and celebrate that glorious event. If so, then a 

 Sabhath is predicted under the gospel dispensation. And 

 whatever belongs to that dispensation, all admit, is of universal 

 and perpetual obligation. 



That a cliange of day icould he demanded, seems evident 

 from the nature of the case. The original day was originally 

 and appropriately chosen to commemorate the work of Crea- 

 tion. But the work of Christ, being our Eedemption in its eter- 

 nal results, must, in the esteem of all Christians, be of far 

 higher and sweeter import. The day that sealed the certainty 

 of that glorious work, and of the ^^ new heavens and earth'' 

 for the redeemed, must, therefore, of necessity be more sacred 

 and joyful to believers than that which commemorated the 

 creation of this visible globe. This must perish, but that 

 must endure (^Imi. li. 6). And if, according to Isaiah (lx v. 

 17, 18), the glory of the first creation is so to fade in compa- 

 rison, as to cease from the commemoration of men, then here 

 is a divine prediction of a change of the Sabbath from the 

 seventh, in the order to the /i7^si day of the week, grounded 

 upon the \erj nature of things, and the consequent necessity 

 of the case. 



That such a change was made in fact — in other words, that 

 the day appropriated to Christian worship, and the commemo- 

 ration of the work of Redemption (especially in the Eucharist, 

 or " breaking of bread"), was the first day of the weeh — that 

 this was sanctioned by Christ himself after his resurrection, as 

 the " Lord of the Sabbath" — that it has the example of the 

 inspired apostles in its favor — that it was familiarly known and 

 acknowledged among all Christians as the " Lord's day," i. e., 

 the day by His authority consecrated to Him — are four dis- 

 tinct facts, for which we can cite both chapter and verse. (See 



