MR. TAYLOR' S SECOND REPLY. 101 



Whatelt. 



mention is ever made of sucli a thing, either by Christ, or the 

 Apostles. And wlien the Apostle Paul sajs, Christians are 

 not to be condemncd on account of Sabbaths, &c. {Col. ii.), 

 he shows that they were entirely free from that law ; which 

 liberty would be of no effect, if the law remaining — the dai/ 

 merely were changed. The day of the Lord's resurrection was 

 not observed by Christians, from any precept of God, or of the 

 Apostles, but by voluntary agreement of the liberty which had 

 been given them." (^Annotations on the Old Test., Exod. xx.) 



Milton strongly argues : " The law of the Sabbath being 

 thus repealed, that no particular day of worship has been ap- 

 pointed in its place is evident from the Apostle in Romans 

 xiv. 5.'^ (^Christian Doctrine, Book ii. chap. 7.) 



Neander remarks : "The festival of Sunday was always 

 only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intention of 

 the Apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far 

 from them and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the 

 laws of the Sabbath to Sunday.'' (^Hist of Christian Church, 

 sec. iii.) 



In fine, as Whately justly contends, "If the precepts rela- 

 tive to the ancient Sabbath are acknowledged to remain in 

 force, then the observance of the first day of the week, instead 

 of ^the seventh,' becomes an unwarrantable presumption." 

 i^Essai/ on the Sahhath.) 



But I have already considerably exceeded my appointed 

 limits; and am compelled to pause. In justice to myself, I 

 must notice an intimation of J. N. B. — that I may have made 

 a use "of the unguarded language of others — they never de- 

 signed," (p. 56.) Painful as such a conviction would be, I 

 should certainly be thankful to my friend for its frank indica- 

 tion. If through prejudice, or inadvertence, I have given an 

 unfair coloring to authority, I would much rather be corrected, 

 and retract a mistaken application, than continue in error, or 

 labor under an intangible imputation. 



W. B. T. 

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