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Is'o •' ordinance"' of a Christian Sabbath. Unjustifiable amplifications. 



idle is such a doubt in reference to ' the Lord's day !' Honest 

 inen should blush to own such a doubt.'' {p. 188.) 



To relieve my friend from all imputation of discourtesy, I 

 have the pleasure to assure him that I own no particle of 

 '^ doubt" upon the subject; and may, therefore, I presume, be 

 held excused from blushing, without any impeachment of my 

 honesty. But what Tvretched ^^ verbal trijiing" have we in 

 this passage: what '^darkening of counsel by words without 

 knowledge." Every intelligent man should know that "the 

 Lord's Table," "the Lord's cup," and "the Lord's Supper" 

 DO NOT "prove the existence of an Ordinance;" that thcse 

 designa tions are its merest accidents! Every consistent Pro- 

 testant knows that "an Ordinance of universal and perpetual 

 obligation" can be proved only by " chapter and verse" or- 

 daining. Every honest reader of his Bible knows that with 

 regard to a " Christian Sabbath/' none such exists! J. N. B. 

 himself has been compelled unreservedly to acknowledge, that 

 this is " a kind or degree of evidence which Infinite Wisdom 

 has not seen fit to give" (p. 170); and that even to look for 

 it, was " preposterous I" (p. 172.) 



The passage immediately preceding this most unworthy 

 sophism of my friend J. N. B. is an appropriate introduction 

 to it : " Here is ^ the Lord's day' in the Christian Church[!] 

 at the close of the Apostolic age ; as such too well known to 

 need explanation,[!!] sanctioned by the last of the Apostles of 

 Christ,[!!!] and by Christ himself indeed,[! !!!] with the last 

 vision of his glory accorded to man on earth." (p. 188.) In 

 what language shall I rebuke this daring tissue of perversion ? 

 Has the solemn warning, with which this book of prophecy 

 closes {Rev. xxii. 18), been utterly unheeded? 



Step by step have I now followed the trail on which my 

 friend promised we should find " the thing'^ — a New Testament 

 " Sabbath :" but the most careful search has been fruitless. 

 Step by step has the evidence become more irresistible that 

 we have been led " a wild-goose-chase" — altogether upon the 

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