246 ABROGATTON OF THE SABBATH. 



EusEBios : His testimony — ^Mii-sabbatarian. 



"But the second creation had not an end ; so that he took no 

 rest, but works even to the present. And hence we do not 

 keep the Sabbath, as they did in the former dispensation, but 

 hope for a future Sabbath of Sabbaths, in which the new 

 creation, having no end, shall be established a perpetual holy 

 day. (Tom. i. — Tract. de Sahbatis et Circumcisione.) I ten- 

 der the testimony of my friend'g witness, as a valuable and per- 

 spicuous corroboration of my Scriptural doctrine, tJiat Sunday 

 is not the " jSabbath." 



2. J. N. B. continues (p. 166): ''Coleman adds : 'The 

 account which Eusebius gives of this subject is that the Logos, 

 the Word, in the New Testament, trans/erred the Sabbath of 

 the Lord Grod unto this day.' " The acconnt which Eusebius 

 gives of the subject in his Commentary on the Psalms (the 

 work from which the above has been incorrectly quoted), is as 

 follows: "This Psalm is superscribed * For the Sabbath.' 

 Now even the Priests in the temple did various ivorks on the 

 Sabbath in conformity with the law; so that it did not require 

 from them an absolute rest ; nor indeed was the Sabbath day 

 appointedfor the priests, but only for such as could not devote 

 their whole life to the worship of Grod, and all their days to 

 works acceptable to Him. Hence it was enacted for them to 

 attend to these things at stated intervals.'' Then, after a 

 citation of the severe denunciation of Isaiah (chap. i. 13, 14), 

 occurs the passage : '^ Wherefore the word through the new 

 covenant transferred the festival from the Sabbath to the 

 dawning of the light," &c. ... "On that day, which is the 

 first day of light, and of the true sun, we assemble together 

 (six days intervening), and celebrating spiritual Sabbaths, per- 

 form according to the spiritual \di\7whatwas appointedfor the 

 priests to do on the Sabbath ;^ for we make spiritual offerings 



* *'Have ye not read m the law, how that on the Sabbath days, 

 the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless ?" 

 {Matt. xii. 5.) 



