MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 249 



ErxTAX : His view essentially --Ixfj-sabbatarian. 



4. J. N. B. has made another attempt to smuggle in John 

 BuNYAN. Beprecating the requirement of "t\\Q seventh day/* 

 he remarks : ''In this sense I fullj agree with Bunyan, 'As 

 for the seventh da}^, that is gone to its grave, with the signs 

 and shadows of the Old Testament.' " {p. 168.) An important 

 word in the quotation has been omitted "probably from in- 

 advertence.'' My friend does not "agree with Bunyan'' in 

 any sense. That independent thiuker correctly holds that it 

 is "the seventh day Sabba fh, that as we see, is gone to its 

 grave- And it was this sentiment that, in my last Reply (j?. 

 147, — note^, I challenged my friend " to indorse ;'' and which I 

 hope he will yet have the courage and consistency to do, with- 

 out reservation. In Bunyans theology, it is the fourth 

 COMMANDMEXT that "is goue to its grave, with the ' signs* 

 and ' shadows' of the Old Testament."^ I commend the fact 

 to my friend' s more attentive consideration ; and I confidently 

 tender him this witness in addition to his others, as likewise 



tiles, yet so early as the days of Justin Martyr, we finJ the other two 

 jdeas actually in the miuds of Christians [1], For he assigns as the 

 reasons for observing the first day of the week, comraonly called Sun- 

 day, as the day of Christian worship, that on this day, God having 

 changed the darkness and the elements, created\h^ world [!], and that 

 Jesus our Lord on this day arose from the dead." {p. 167.) Well, 

 really ! And what in the name of conimon sense has all this to do with 

 the Sabbath? — the day on which " God rested from all his work." 



A patriarchal Sabbath is one of the most notable assumptions in 

 speculative theology ; and its sublimest phase is the modem intuitive 

 discovery that a Christian Sunday Sabbath was the true primitive type, 

 the Saturday of the Creators chrouology, being to man " the first day 

 after his ovrn oreation," and naturally his Sunday. The question 

 whether Adam enjoyed his ** sublime repose" from creatiou on Satur- 

 day or Sunday becomes thus a somewhat equivocal one. (See an 

 elaborate "Sermon, with notes," by Prof. Lee. Cambridge, England, 

 1833.) 



* My friend, as "Editor" of Bunyan's Practical Works, cannot be 

 ignorant of this. 



