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Luther. Melaxcthon. Cranmer. 



their appointed times, so, also, the ohservance of ilie Sahhath 

 is ijroved to have been temporaryJ" ( Opera, Tract. ^^ Advers. 

 Jud." sect. 2, 3, 4.) And yet my friend claims his author- 

 ity ! (p. 52.) 



Indeed, it is an indisputable fact tliat the early Fathers — 

 (I believe without exception) — contrast the '' Lord's day'' 

 with the Sabbath ; — that they piit them on entirely diflferent 

 grounds ; — and that they restrict the term " Sabbath/' as the 

 Bible does, to ^^ the seventh day" of the week. The true 

 ^' Scriptural view is confirmed in the clearest manner by Eccle- 

 siastical History."* 



^^As regards the Sabbath, or Sunday/' says Luther, 

 " there is no necessity for keeping it ; but if we do, it ought 

 to be not on account of Moses's commandment, but because 

 nature teaches us from time to time to take a day of rest." 

 {3Iichelet's Life, Book iv. chap. 2.) 



" There exist^monstrous disputations,'' says Melancthon, 

 '"'' touching the cliange of the Sabbath, which have sprung up 

 from the false persuasion that a worship like the Levitical was 

 needful in the church .... They who think that, by the au- 

 thority of the church, the observation of the Lord's day was 

 appointed instead of the Sabbath, as if necessary, are greatly 

 deceived.'' (^Augsburg Confession of Faith, 1530.) 



Says Cranmer, "The Jews were commanded in the Old 

 Testament to keep the Sabbath day, and they observed it 



* Cave remarks concerning Saturday: "The word ^ sabhatum' is 

 constantly used in the writings of the Fathers, when speaking of it as 

 relatesto Christians." {Prim. Chris. P. i. chap. vii.) Baxter says of 

 Sunday — "The ancient churches called it constantly by the name 

 ' Lord's day,' and never called it the Sabbath, but when they spoke ana- 

 logically, by allusion to the Jewish Sabbath ; even as they call the 

 holy table the altar," &c. [Baxter': Work, Vol. iii. " On the Lord's 

 day." chap. 7.) It was not till erroneous views of the day of Christ- 

 ian worship began to be entertained, that it was ever suj)jjosed to " ab- 

 sorb into itself the authority of the original law" — the foui-th com- 

 mandment. (p. 52.) 



