200 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



A " concession" refuted. The same day uniformly required. 



164.) " Whj should I not be, when he comes over completely 

 to my ground ? Would that in all points we could meet as 

 perfectly as in this I" If our agreement is real, our cause for 

 congratulation is mutual. I am afraid, however, that my 

 friend's sophisms have carried him somewhat into a fog : for I 

 notice that, in afterwards recurring to this point (p. 182), he 

 says : " The actual designation of (he day of the wech to be 

 observed as the Sabbath is fixed by a separate temporary 

 statute, (as I have fully shown, and confirmed hy tlie umvilling 

 concession of W. B. T. Imnself ly J. N. B. is mistaken : 

 douhly mistaken. First, he unjustly mistakes in using the 

 epithet "unwilling,'' for my admissions never shall be so. I 

 assure him I love the truth too well to pay it a reluctant 

 homage ; and if I make a '' concession,'' it shall be with the 

 exultation due to the discovery of a new and unfamiliar truth. 

 But my friend again mistakes, in claiming as a " concession" 

 what I have decisively refuted ! The designation of the day 

 of the week to be observed is not ^' fixed by a separate statute.'' 



In my very first Reply (p. 21), I showed that " in every 

 variety, and on every occasion of its enunciation, the law per- 

 tinaciously requires a particular day." We find that "the 

 actual designation of the day of the week to be observed as 

 the Sabbath" is as explicit in the Decalogue as it is in Exod. 

 xvi. 26. It " is fixed by a separate temporary statute," no 

 otherwise than as the imperfect Sabbath law at Sin was, pre- 

 paratory to its more precise and impressive re-enactment at 

 Sinai. " 1 am most happy to agree with my friend" that 

 the seventh day Sabbath was established " by a temforary 

 statute." " Why should I not be, when he comes over com- 

 pletely to my ground ?" 



"It follows," proceeds J. N. B., "that the designation of the 

 particular day of the week from a given point of reckoning 

 is no part of the Fourth Commandment. The jjroportion of 



our days to be kept holy to the Lord is alone specified 



'The seventh day' of the Decalogue, as far as it is defined by 



