INTRODUCTION 



The Six following Propositions — designed to cover the 

 entire ground of Christian Anti-sabbatarianism — were pub- 

 lished by "W. B. T. through one of the secular papers of 

 Philadelphia ; and, in an introductory paragraph condemning 

 the prevalent disposition to "judge one man^s liberty of an- 

 other man's conscience/' were ^^ ænfidentli/ aiinounced as inca- 

 pahle of refutation, and challenging dispute." 



This challenge was accepted by J. N. B. in a short Reply 

 published in the "Christian Chronicle;"* whose columns 

 very liberally were thrown open to the free discussion of the 

 important question — The Ohligation of tlie Fourth Command' 

 ment, or the ScHptural Authority of the Sabhath: — a discussion 

 which few will deny to be "seasonable — practical — and in its 

 relations to the Law and the Grospel — fundamental and all- 

 pervading." 



* A weekly religions newspaper of Philadelphia, devoted to the 

 interests of the Baptist Churches. 



