210 ABROGATION OP THE SABBATE. 



The " Lord's day" not here in controversy. 



troversy turns ? If the true reason is, because he dared not, 

 the charge of verbal trifling recoils on him who, driven from 

 all his defences, seeks refuge in artifice, and endeavors to veil 

 defeat beneath a juggle of xvords. 



" If I prefer to call it ^ the Lord's day/ '^ my friend will not 

 " quarrel with me V^ Unequalled complaisance ! If I should 

 feel disposed to change the issue, he will not object : — if I sur- 

 render my castle, I am welcome to his wigwam ! I '' prefer' ' 

 to remind J. N. B., once more, that our present subject of dis- 

 cussion is " the Scriptural authority of the Sabbath/' in other 

 words, the obligation of the fourth commandment. When this 

 is disposed of, I will cheerfully investigate with him whatever 

 other subject he may propose. 



W. B. T. 



PART II. 



INTIMATIONS OF A TRANSFER OF THE SABBATH. 



" Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read." — Isaiah xxxiv. 16, 



"And he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. 

 What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord." — Jeremiah xxiii. 28. 



"For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken — the 

 fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, 

 that can hold no water." — Jeremiah ii. 13. 



" To the Law, and to the testimony : if they speak not according to 

 this xoord, it is because there is no light in them." — Isaiah viii. 20. 



** There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the coun- 

 sel of the Lord, — that shall stand." — Proverbs xix. 21. 



"Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be 

 rooted up !" — Matthew xv. 13. 



Although the Bible admittedly contains no "positive 

 proof'^ of any Christian enactment of the Sabbath, nor any 

 " explicit account of its traiufer to the first day from the se- 

 venth," yet the persistency of my friend's reliance on supposed 



