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uences, entirely overlooked. Grave chargés — unbecomingly made. 



degradation of upholding a mere human invention of this kind ? 

 What man of enlightened conscience but would recoil from 

 so presumptuous a claim of sanctity ? What man of real piety 

 could any longer observe the day " as unto the Lord V — 

 ^'The Lord's day'^ would in fact be no more ! 



]My friend, indeed, as if this were not a practical question, 

 where every man, woman, and child must necessarily take a 

 side, would waive all regard to consequences. He does not 

 seem to think that " the tree is known by its fruits." He 

 can give up the Sabbath as coolly as the false mother of old 

 consented to the division of the living child. To him Truth 

 is Truth, alike whether she carries the balm of life, or the 

 weapon of death. He never seems to suspect that Truth is 

 modest, and Error brazen. If Truth veils her countenance, 

 and shrinks from the careless eye, he pronounces her to be 

 Deceit, or an Apparition from the land of '^ shadows." And 

 yet my friend is an earnest man. And much as I differ with 

 him, I would fain by the force of evidence convince him, and 

 embrace him as a brother still. 



He has, indeed (in closing his part i v. — p. 157) become an 

 "accuser of the brethren.'^ He has brought against me, and 

 my hrethren also, chargés of the gravest kind. From hwi^ 

 certainly, they come with an ill grace, even were they true. 

 But they are not. The full refutation of them will be found, 

 I trust, in my Reply. If he hear me, I have gained my 

 brother. 



If my friend felt himself crippled for want of space to de- 

 velop his Argument fully, I more. His minutest as well as 

 main objections niight be fairly removed seriatim were space 

 allowed me.* But, shut up to a single concluding article, I 



* For example, W. B. T. calls my argument on Gen. ii. 3, in proof 



of the Origin of the Sabbath at the Creation, '•'■ etymologicaV [p. 104), 



when it is exegetical: being founded, not on etymology, but on establish- 



ed usage. It is therefore perfectly impregnable. His attempted reply, on 



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