THE ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



REPLY TO '^J. N. B. 



PART I. 



** Think not tliat I am come to destroy the Law or tlie Prophets ; I 

 am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For veril.y I say unto you, till 

 heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from 

 the Law — till all he falfilhdy — Mattiiew v. 17, 18. 



" After this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished 



. . . . he said, It is finishcd! and he bowed his head, and gave 

 up the ghost." — John xix. 28 — 30. 



'■^ Noiv we are delivered from the Law, that being (7faJ where^n we 

 were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the 

 oldness of the letter." — Romans vii. 6. 



" Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace ? 

 God forbid !" — (Ib. vi. 15.) " Do we then make void the Law through 

 faith? God forbid ! Yea, we establish the Law." — Ib. iii. 31. 



Messrs. Editors : — 



Were I disposed to flatterj I miglit reciprocate com- 

 pliments on the skill of my friend, and file an implied caveat 

 with the impartial reader not to be misled by the " lawyer- 

 like subtlety" of his very ^' ingenious defence'^ of the Sab- 

 bath. But while fully and unaffectedly recognizing the supe- 

 rior ability of the advocate, confiding in the strength of my 

 cause, I shall simply entreat the considerate to overlook this 

 disproportion ; to regard solely the evideuces respcctively pre- 

 sented; and to weigh carefully their relative cogency. 



