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The two Decalogues equally national. The first one destroyed. 



the Sabbath advocated by J. N. B. ; for it is in fact the very 

 reason, and the only reason given for the Saturday Sabbath : 

 *' The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God/' be- 

 cause that "i?e rested the seventh day!" {Coinpare Exod. 

 xxxi. 17, with Isai. Ixv. 17.) The first day is not the Lord's 

 Sabbath, because that " in it" he did not rest {Gen. i. 5) : and 

 Sunday therefore cannot possibly commemorate the Lord's rest. 

 As JusTiN Martyr well remarks, it commemorates exactly the 

 opposite circumstance, — the ^VBi creative lahor ! {Apol. part i.) 

 But passing all this, where did my friend find his warrant 

 for thus magisterially repudiating the one Decalogue, and ca- 

 nonizing the other ? By what prophet was it revealed to him 

 that the revised edition was ^' peculiarly appUcahh to the Jews^^ 

 and the other peculiarly applicable to the rost of mankind? If 

 he is disposed thus pointedly to contrast the two Decalogues, I 

 will remind him that the one " originally delivered by God" 

 was destroyed. {Exod. xxxii. 19.) If he insists then on dis- 

 criminating between them, I shall hold him to the Eeuterono- 

 my, — to that second edition of the "tables," which was not 

 destroyed. {Deut. v.) We there find that the Sabbath was 

 expressly given to the Israelite as a memorial of national eman- 

 cipation. Thou wast redeemed from an oppressive bondage ; and 

 '^THEREFORE, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the 

 Sabbath day!" — for this especial reason was it instituted.* 



* <' It is an argument that the Jewish Sabbath was not to be per- 

 petual," says Jonathan Edwards, "that the Jews were commanded 

 to keep it in remembrance of their deliverance out of Egypt .... Now 

 can any person think that God would have all nations under the Gos- 

 pel, and to the end of the world, keep a day every week, which was 

 instituted in remembrance of the deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt ?" 

 (Sermons, ser. xxvi. On the Sabbath.) This argument is the more satis- 

 factory as coming from an ardent Sabbatarian ! And he might have add- 

 ed, with no less cogency, — Can any Sunday Sabbatarian think that God 

 would have all nations under the Gospel keep that day every week which 

 commemorated his rest from creation ? {Exod. xx. 10, 11 ; Isai. Ixv. 17.) 



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