92 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



Isai. Ixv.— an unfulfilled prophecy : and Anti-sabbatarian. 



memoration of men, then here is a divine prediction of a 

 change of the Sabbath from the seventh in the order, to the 

 Jirst day of the week, grounded upon the very nature of things, 

 and the consequent necessity of the case/' (p. 51.) This 

 assumption is more gratuitous (if such be possible) than even 

 the preceding. The creation of "new heavens and a new 

 earth," after which '^the former shall not be remembered/' 

 and " the voice of weeping shall be no more heard/' certainly 

 has not yet been accomplished. The parallel passage in Eev. 

 xxi. 1, would be just as pertinent to prove " a change of the 

 Sabbath. '^ Moreover, a respectable portion — even of the 

 Christian church, still does remember '' the seventh day/^ to 

 keep it holy. But again, if the prophet's announcement pos- 

 sibly could be referred to an accomplislied Advent, it is much 

 stronger to prove my side of the question than that of J. N. 

 B. If the Creator's seventh day rest is not to be remembered 

 longer, then is the institution commemorating it, ipso facto 

 annuUed. And so far from having any corresponding memo- 

 rial to replace it, we are to "be glad and rejoice for ever." 

 "And it shall come to pass i\iQii from one new 7noon to another, 

 and from one Sahhath to anotlier, shall all flesh come to wor- 

 ship before me, saith the Lord." (^Isai. Ixvi. 23,)* 



To establish a new Sabbath laio however — or what is the 

 same thing, "a change of the Sabbath" — we require more de- 

 cisive authority than the supposed intimations of an uncertain 

 prophecy, or presumptions derived "from the nature of 

 the case.'' I have demanded direct proof that such a 

 change has been commanded; I have asked for "the chap- 

 ter and verse" from the New Covenant recording such 

 command. My friend thus answers the appeal : "That 

 such a change was mach in fact — in other words, that the day 

 appropriated to Christian worship, and the commemoration of 



"^ "These saints shall not have set times for God's worship, but 

 shall \)Q perpetually employed in serving and praising Him." — Lowth. 

 {^Commcntary : inloco.) 



