218 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



A logical conclusion ! The true bearing of the text — overlooked. 



the statute say anything about a " resurrection ?" Does the 

 Bible anywhere — from Genesis to Revelation — give us a hint 

 of any relation between the two ? No whisper of it ! We do 

 read indeed that the Sabbath law was connected with the 

 Crucifixion (see Col. ii. 14, 16) ; — but with the Resurrection 

 — NEVER ! " It remains, therefore, I think/^ says J. N. B. 

 (p. 178), " a sound conclusion from the premises, that the first 

 day of the week is appointed the Sabhath of the Christian 

 Dispensation !" Quod erat demonstrandiim. 



But, on the other hand, granting the monstrous absurdity 

 that the appearance of Jesus to his disciples constituted the 

 day, ipso facto, a ^' Sabbath," ifc appears to have been entirely 

 overlooked by J. N. B. that his present text, so far from sup- 

 porting the claim of Sunday to that character, establishes 

 Monday as a " day of rest." It is familiar to every theolo- 

 gical tyro, and will be questioned by no one, that the " day" 

 of the Bible, and of the Hebrews, began with the evening. 

 [Exod. xii. 18 ) Levit. xxiii. 32; Nth. xiii. 19, &c. ; Marh xv. 

 42.) The setting of the sun formed the division point between 

 the termination of one day, and the introduction of the next. 

 {Bent. xvi. 6.) The ''first day" of the week commenced on 



resurrection ?" Chapter and verse for tliat ! Can his utmost diligence 

 of scrutiny find it out? He knows — fully and indubitably knoivs — 

 that neither of these " grand events" occurred on " the weekly Sab- 

 bath:" how then can either of them be ^'connected" with it? What 

 means this " turning aside unto vain jangling ?" The Sabbath is memo- 

 rable only for the rest of Jesus in the grave ! and knowing, as J. N. B. 

 does, that during "that whole day" he <* lay in his lowest humiliation 

 under the power of death" [p. 168), while his mourning disciples 

 *' rested the Sahhath-day according to the commandment," how pre- 

 sumes he to tell us that " a still high er dignity was conferred upon the 

 weekly Sabbath" by the consummation of "the great work of human 

 redemption?" In what Testament did he read it ? " Yea, hath God 

 said ?" Is it wheat, or is it chaff ? — Search the Scriptures ! " Every 

 plant which the heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooied 

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