264 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



An " ungracious task." Sabbatarian nakedness exposed. 



ungracious task'^ of discovering the nuditj of venerable error, 

 and, to aggravate the impiety of this surprisal, have profanely 

 ^' told the brethren without/' the lorimari/ rebuke must fall 

 upon the " fathers*' in Israel, who have ventured out luitliout 

 ilieir proper garments ! — not " having their loins girt about 

 with Truth !" If anti-evangelical " views of the ten com- 

 mandments, or some of them at least, have been emBraced and 

 propagated by Ministers of the Gospel'^ (^p. 192), let these pa- 

 triarchs be not utterly astonished to find their nakedness dis- 

 played by some unfilial Ham. Let them not, with false, 

 unhonored dignity, retort : " Thou wast altogether bom in 

 sins, and dost thou teach us?" Let them, with prudent heart, 

 incline their ear unto instruction, however humble or unworthy 

 its source ; studious rather of the good grace with which ad- 

 vice may be received, than of the " bad grace^^ with which it 

 may be proffer ed. " Rebuke a wise man, and he will love 

 thee, and will be yet wiser/' 



Unlike Ham, however, I would arouse our spiritual " Fa- 

 therg" from their lethargic "orthodoxy,'' solely that they may 

 be fully conscious of their uncovered situation. Unlike Ham, 

 I urgently tender them the garment adapted to remove their 

 reproach of Sabbatarian nakedness. Here are the " Six 

 Propositions,'' diligently woven from the Scriptures. Awake, 

 ye slumbering Noahs, from your traditionary bondage and 

 bewitchment !* '' Take unto you the whole armor of God, 

 that ye may be able to stand -" and that ye may wield with 

 the power of consistency " the sword of the Spirit, which is 

 the Word of God." 



"My friend, indeed,^' says J. N. B., "as if this were not a 

 practical question, where every man, woman, and child must 

 necessarily take a side, would waive all regard to consequences. 

 He can give up the Sabbath as coolly as the false mother of 

 old consented to the division of the living child. To him, 



* Ephesians v. 14. Galaiians iii. 1, 2. 



