148 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



Spencek. The Epistolary allusions uniformli/ Ajiti sulibatarian. 



'' From all tliese tliiugs," 8113^3 Spenger, " it is most clearly 

 apparent tluit the foiirtli commandment was adapted solely to 

 tbe circ-umstauces of the Mosaic econoiuy, and bouud the 

 Jews alone, held under the tutorship of the law ; and that 

 they are egregiously {I will not say ridiculously) mistakeu, 

 who maintain that we are bound to a Christian Sabhafh (as it 

 is called), wholly devoted to rest and the duties of religion, 

 by the authority of the fourth commandment I" {De Laj. 

 Hch. Rit. lib. i. cap. iv. scct. 13.) 



W. B. T. 



TART IV. 



*' Tell mo, ye that desire to be under ' the Law,' do ye not hear the 

 Law ? Fur it is written that Abraham had two sons ; the one by a 

 bond-muid, the other by a free woman." — Galatiaxs iv, 21, 22. 



'• Israel, which foUowed after the Law of righteousness, hath not 

 attained to the Law of righteousness." — Romans ix. 31. 



"We Avhich have believed do enter info rest.'" — (Hebkews iv. 3.) 

 "For Christ is the end of the Laic for righteousness to every one that 

 believeth." — Romans x. 4. 



Yl. The prov Lsional nature uniformly aser ihed to tite Sah- 

 hath III the suhsequent Epistles. 



Closely connected with the preceding " Proposition," and 



the seventh-day Sabbath, that. as we see, is gone to its grave Avith the 



signs and shadows of the Old Testament The first day of the 



week is the Christian's market-day ; that which they so solemnly trade 

 in for soul provision for all the week following. This is the day that 

 they gatlier manna in. To be sure, the seventh-day Sabbath is not 

 that ; for of old the people of God could never find manna on that 



day I conclude that those Gentile professors that adhcre 



thereto are Jewified, legalized, and so far gone back from the authority 

 of God, who /rom such bondages has set his churches free." — [Essay on 

 the Sabbath, ques. v.) 



