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JusTix Martyr : An unfortunate appeal. 



and sacrifices," &c " And indeed whatever other things 



it was proper to accomplish on the Sabbath, tbese we have 

 transferred to the Lord's day as being pre-eminent in dignity, 

 and more honored than that Sabbath of the Jews. For upon 

 this first day, God at the creation having said : * Let there be 

 light/ the light was/' &c. {Commentar. in Psalmos, Ps. xci.*) 

 The same author, in another work, likens the Patriarchs to 

 Christians, by obserring : " Thei/ regarded not carnal circum- 

 cision, neither do we ; they regarded not an ohservance of 

 Sabbaths, neither DO WE ; they regarded not an abstinence 

 from certain meats, and other distinctions which Moses first 

 instituted, and transmitted to be typically obeyed, neither do 

 Christians observe such ceremonies now." {Hist. Eccles. lib. i. 

 cap. 4.) I tender my friend, Eusebius as a strong witness 

 that Sunday is not the " Sabbath.' ' 



3. JusTiN Martyr (says J. N. B.,p. 167) '^assigns as the 

 reasons for observing the first day of the week, commonly 

 called Sunday, as the day of Christian worship, that on this day 

 God, having changed the darkness and the elements, created 

 the world, and that Jesus our Lord on this day arose from the 

 dead/' 



Most unfortunate allusion ! This witness strikes away the 

 very corner-stone of Sunday Sabbatarianism ; and denies all 

 possible connection between Sunday and the fourth command- 

 ment ! The " Sabbath" was ordained on a particular day, 

 because that on a corresponding period God " rested" (ishib- 

 hoth) from his work; *' wherefore the Lord blessed the 

 Sabbath day" {Exod. xx. 11); but Justin maintains that *'the 

 first day" was not a rest day, but was memorable for the dia- 

 metrically opposite and incompatible reason that then the 

 Creator began to worh ! And he moreover assigns this as the 

 primary reason for commemorating the day ! '' On the day 



* Being Psalm xcii. of the common version. 



