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Psalms cxviii. — No relation whatcTer to the fourth commandmetit. 



Scriptural intimations of some such ctange requires that I 

 sliould more fully consider his texts and his inferences. I 

 shall therefore review the passages adduced — seriatim; glean- 

 ing, with the patient care due to the importance of the subject, 

 whatever has been urged in their support, solicitous that no 

 straw, or semblance of a straw, escape the garner. These refer- 

 ences, I believe, amount to twelve, and are all included in part 

 I. of his former Replj {pp. 51, 52). 



I. Intimations f rom Prophecy. 



1. The first text urged to indicate a change of day is from 

 Psalms cxviii. 24 : " This is the day which ih^ Lord hath made; 

 we will rejoice and be glad in it.'' Upon which J. N. B. re- 

 marks (p. 177) : ^' How 'made?' This word can have no dis- 

 tinct meaning, unless it signifies here 'madesacred/ and to 

 agree with the foregoing verse, it must mean ' made sacred to 

 Christ,' in honor of his exaltation as the 'head of the corner.' 

 And that this sacredness is to be recognized by the Church is 

 clear from the following words: 'We will rejoice and be glad 

 in it.'" Ergo, "Thou shalt not do any work" on Sunday : ergo, 

 the Jewish Sabbath has been '' transferred." Quite an impos- 

 ing hypothetical sorites. If ^' made' signifies here '^ made 

 sacred,'' and if this signifies '^ made sacred to Clirist,'' and if 

 this signifies ''made sacred from lahor,'' why then it is not im- 

 possible that a "Sabbath" may here be intended. And, in the 

 second place,if the word "day" signifies here a time of weekly 

 recurrence, and if that time is Sunday, and if to " be glad in 

 it" means to worship on it, and if to worship on it means to 

 "rest" on it, why then perhaps Sunday is a " Sabbath." 



To blow upon this paper building would be a superfluous 

 effort of breath -, and were I to assist my friend in supporting 

 his tottering pile, it would really benefit him nothing. " The 

 thing" required, the Sahhath of the fourth commandment, is 

 just as foreign to the text as is its "name." But it is too clear 

 for illustration, that "the day" here spoken of by the Psalmist, 



