250 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



The -witnesses all reelaimecl. Burden of proof. 



furnishing a satisfactory testimony that Sundai/ is not the day 

 required. in the Deccdogue I 



I believe these are all the authorities cited by J. N. B. to 

 corroborate his unscriptural assumption ] but so far from giving 

 it any countenanee, I claim that they one and all confirm my 

 ^'Proposition/' that Saturday is the Sabbath demanded by 

 the fourtli commandment. 



W. B. T. 



PART III. 

 TRUE PERIOD AND CHARACTER OF THE SABBATH. 



" The 'Law and the Prophets' were until John: since that time the 

 ^Kingdom of God' is preached." — Luke xvi. 16. 



"The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be for- 

 gotten in Zion. . . Her King and her princes are among the Gentiles : 

 the Law is no more." — Lamentations ii. 6, 9. 



"For there is verily a disannuUing of the commandment going be- 

 fore, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof." — HEBREWSvii. 18. 



"Sabbath days . . . are a 'shadow' of things to come; but the 

 'body' is of Chi^ist." (Colossians ii. 17.) "And his 'rest' shall be 

 'glorious.' " — TsAiAH xi. 10. 



"There remaineth therefore a heeping of a Sabbath, to the people of 

 God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hatk ceased from 

 his own 'works,' as God did from his." ["For He spake in a certain 

 place of 'the sevenfh day^ on this wise, 'And God did rest the seventh 

 day from all his works.'"] — Hebeews iv. 9, 10, 4. 



"If that which is done away was glorious, much more that which 

 'remaineth' is 'glorious.' Seeing then thatwe have such hope, weuse 

 great plainness of speech." — 2 Cobinthians iii. 11, 12. 



"If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : but 

 if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to 

 fight against God." — Acts v. 38, 39. 



It is obvious that the burden of proof lies wholly on him 

 who affirms the existence of another Sabbath than that of "the 



