THE ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



REPLY TO ''J. N. B. 



PART I. 



" Stand fast, tlierefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made ua 

 free." — Galatians v. 1. 



Messrs. Editors : — 



By your favor, I would occupy a small space in your 

 paper, with a few remarks upon " the Obligation of the Sab- 

 bath/^ in reply to the able article of your correspondent ^' J. 

 N. B./^ which appeared in a late number of the Christian 

 Chronide ; and which reviewed, in order, the " Six Proposi- 

 tions" on which Christian Anti-sabbatarianism may be sup- 

 posed to rely. 



I. To the First Proposition, that the Bible knows but one 

 weekly Sabbath — " the seventh day'' of the fourth command- 

 ment, J. N. B. replies (without "ven turing" an unqualified 

 negation), "The Decalogue knows nothing of Saturday. 

 It makes no designation of the day. It fixes only the pro- 

 portion of time, every seventh day for devotional rest, but 

 leaves the date of the reckoning, and of course the day 

 itself, to be determined by positive law, or some other 

 means/' I must here thank my friend for his admission that 

 the particular day of the commandment belongs to " positive 

 law," and therefore not to natural or moral law : it will help 

 to elucidate the Second Proposition. There is one erroneous 

 assertion in the above, however, which demands correction. It 

 is not true that the Sabbath law " fixes onlj/ the proportiou of 



