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Carnal Sabbatarianism incompatible with a spiritual " Sabbatism." 



gion, the pillar and prop of society, tlie palladium of nations, 

 the ^pearl of days/ tlie blessing of this world and the beacon- 

 light of that wliich is to come" — that priceless institution is 

 declared a vain chimera !— hut a human fiction I* — but as the 

 baseless fabric of a vision, and insubstantial pageant faded — 

 as a superstitious dream when one awaketh ! 



Even so ! But rarely, in the close-paged history of human 

 orror, has so haughty a construction towered above so slender 

 a foundation, as in the development of what is called " the 

 Lord's day, or the Christian Sabhathl" However pious and 

 devoted its advocates, however "fervent in spirit'' or " diligent 

 in teaching," they require to have ^' the way of Grod more per- 

 fectly expounded unto them" {Reh. v. 12, 14); for their 

 *' zeal of God is not according to knoidedgeJ^ "Desiring to 

 be teachers of ^ the Law,^ they understand neither what they 

 say, nor whereof they affirm." ^' Their minds are blinded ; for 

 until this day remaineth the veil untaken away in the reading 

 of the old testament;" so that "they cannot steadfastly look 

 to the end of that which is abolished." They have not fuUy 

 entered into that true Sabbatism which "remaineth to the 

 people of God :" " neither can they know it, because it is spi- 

 ritually discerned I" " What if some do not believe ? Shall 

 their unbelief make the faith of God without effect ? God for- 

 bid !" 



^^ Here is the Sahhathr' exclaims my friend, with earnest 

 apostrophe. {p. 173.) "Look at it. The seal of the world's 

 Creator — of your Creator and of mine — is upon it.f Efface it 



^ "If the Sabbath be no part of the Law of God, let it perishl" 

 J. N. B. (2J. 55.) 



j How comes it that J. N. B. has been so bold as to "efface" the 

 "seal of the world's Creator" by an utter neglect of that day which 

 alone can be the seal? "Remember the Sabbath day !" — Vom Ila- 

 Shibingi; — the day in which the Creator rested! "The first day" 

 never was, and never can be, day Ha-Shibingi ! And on it the Creator 

 did not rest! [Gen. i. 1 — 5.) 



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