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Points established. Evidence that Christ changed the day. 



In regard to the day of the Sabbath, I believe my last arti- 

 cle vindicated clearly, beyond all contradiction, the following 

 points : — 



1. The Sabbath was in existence before the Decalogue was 

 given. 



2. The Fourth Commandment, like all the rest, is expressed 

 in terms of universal application; having in them nothing 

 national, local, or temporary. 



3. The ''seventh day," as defined in the Fourth Command- 

 ment, is simply relative to what is said he/ore of the " six days" 

 weeldy devoted to labor, and will equally apply to any day in 

 the week on which it may please God to fix the observance of 

 the Sabbath. 



4. It pleased God to fix that day /or the Jews to Saturday, 

 by the miracle of the Manna — a niiracle entirely peculiar to 

 the nation — thus making the Saturday Sahhath a sign pecu- 

 liarly commemorative of their redemjption from Egypt. Here 

 I agree with my friend W. B. T. 



5. The Saturday Sahhath, being thus a sign of the Mosaic 

 national Covenant, expires with that Covenant ; — leaving the 

 universal weekly Sahhath required by the Decalogue in full 

 force — -like the rest of the Ten Commandments. 



What I propose now to show is that there is ample evidence 

 in the Scriptures that Christ, as the sole "Lord of the Sabbath 

 day," changed the day of its ohservance in honor of His own 

 Resurrection : — so that now the first day of the week, common- 

 ly called Sunday, is " the Lord's day," or Christian Sabbath. 



One fundamental part of that evidence is seen (as I showed 

 in my last article) in the nature and necessity of the case — 

 that is to say, in the new relations established by the work of 

 Christ, and confirmed by His resurrection from the dead on 

 that day. For "if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain," 

 Christians, " ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which 

 are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. But now is Christ 

 risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that 



