'264: ABROGATIOX OF THE SAEBATH. 



Acts svi. xTii.. Åe. — OL ii. Xo other Sathath in the Xe^ Testament. 



p. 139), urged upon the OTer " zealous'^ Jewish brethren (Acts 

 xxi. 20) the coDsideration that " Moses of old time hath in 

 eyery city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues 

 everi/ SahhafJi day^ Here, as before, the open synagogue 

 settles beyond all possibility of doubt that Satnrday alone was 

 designated. 



5. Withont quoting in detail all the subseqnent passages 

 referring to ^' the Sabbath day/^ it is sufficient to state that, in 

 every instance in which the phrase is used, throughont the 

 apostolic history {AcU xvi. 13; xvii. 2; xviii. 4,* &c.), bring- 

 ing us doma to a period of thirty years after the crucifixion, 

 its invariable and indisputable application is to "the seventh 

 day.'^ 



6. In the Epistles, we meet -vdth the term but once ( Col. ii. 

 16); and here, as ever, in defiance of the shifts of quibblers, 

 it is still the day obseryed "according to the command ment ^'^ 

 the day Ha-Shihingi, that alone is designated; though, if J. 

 N. B. wishes to apply this text to Sunday, he is welcome to it. 



The result of our examination is, that in no single instance, 

 ihrougliout the N^ev: Testamentj is the title ^' Sahhath" ajppliecl 

 to any other day than Saturday ! (q. E. d.) In every case, 

 let it be remarked, moreover, the designation is "the Sabbath 

 day" — a day too notorious to be mistaken, too definite to be 

 described; — a day excludiug all possible rivalry, and scorning 

 all possible perversion. He, therefore, who tells me of a "first 

 day'' Sabbath, tells me of that of which the Scriptures knoio 

 nothing ! His wisdom is not that which is from above, but 

 after man'3 wisdom; it is drawn from the "broken cistern,'' 

 and not from the "living fountain.^f The triumph of the 



* The simple espressions: "Paul, as kis manner was, went in unto 

 them on three Sabbath days," &c. ; " he reasoned — cvery Sabbath," &c. ; 

 in themselves fnrnish the clearest evidence that no other day of the 

 ■week conld have been at that time similarly distinguished. 



j " K conscience is not true to the Law of God, it is no hetter than 

 a false chronometer." J. N. B. (p. 10.) 



