282 ABROGATION OF TIIE SABBATH. 



The dem and for " correction" — unsatisfactorily answered. 



And as to Bunyan, the ^ Epistle to the Reader' prefixed to his 

 Treatise on the Sabbath, will make the matter clear/^ (p. 193.) 



My friend's answer is not as explicit as my appeal was per- 

 spicuous. I did not assume the charge of '' intentionaV un- 

 fairness, therefore the disclaimer was unnecessary : but ^' if, 

 through prejudice or inadvertence,'' my quotations were unfairly 

 colored, I asked for "correction." Although this has not been 

 offeredj the impntation is no longer '^ intangible ;" and self- 

 respect imperatively requires from me a thorough examinatiou 

 and a decisive replication. 



" Such an appearance /" — What " appearance V An ap- 

 pearance " of giving quotations a icrong coloringf^ And what 

 "fact may be verified" by reading Calvin? The " fact" of 

 such apparent wrong coloring ? Where is the example ? My 

 friend has not adduced it.* I hesitate not to say he cannot 

 adduce it ! On a careful review of the authorities to whom 

 I have referred, I state it as my confident belief, that, 

 without a shade of " apparent coloring/^ they bear out, to 

 the utmost, the particular doctrines they have been summoned 

 to elucidate. " With regard to Calvin, the fact may be veri- 

 fied" by the statement that he will fuUy indorse the whole 

 of my ''Six PROPOSiTiONS.^t The 'primary design of the 



* A more critical discernment would probably have prevented my 

 fi'iend's imputation ; and would certainly have obviated his sagacious 

 STirmise that my authorities did not all '■'■fully agree -with me !!" [p. 

 56.) A " sober logician" should know that evidence, presented upon 

 one point, has nothing to do with any other point. If my witnesses 

 fairly confirm the facts or constructions for which they have been re- 

 spectively adduced, it is simply idle to inquire -whether they "fully 

 agree with me in my Anti-sabbatarian views!" My friend is, of 

 course, at full liberty to make the most he can out of their cross-ex- 

 amination. 



f I do not of course mean by this, that Calvin, in explicit terms, 

 affirms each of the " six propositions," but that, from the tenor of his 

 writings, he evidently would not hesitate to do so. And I throw upon 

 J. N. B. the proof tliat he has ever, in any of his writings, directly or 

 indirect-ly, imp^Hched one of them. 



