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A " partial extract" from Calvin. 



fourth commandment was, in his opinion, " to give the people 

 of Israel a figure of the spiritual rest by which the faithful 

 ought to refrain from their own works, in order to leave Grod 

 to work with them :" and he maintains that " Christ is the end 

 and consummation of that true rest foreshadowed hy the an- 

 cient Sabbath.'' In relation to '4heLord's day/' he observes 

 that it was used '^onli/ as a remedy necessary to the preserva- 

 tion of order in the Church.'' " Neither/' says he, " do I so 

 regard the septenary number that Iwould bind the church to 

 its observance! . . The amount is, that as the truth was deli- 

 vered to the Jews under a figure, so it is given to us without 

 shadows — first that we may consecrate our eutire life, as a per- 

 petual Sabbatism from our own works,'' &c. . . " Thus vanish 

 all the dreams of false prophets, who in past ages have imbued 

 the people with a Judaic opinion, affirming that nothing was 

 abrogated in this command, except what was ^ ceremonial,' 

 (which by their account is the appointment of ' the seventh 

 day') but that what was ' moral' remained in force, — namely, 

 the observance of one day in seven. But this is nothing else 

 but to change the day in contempt of the Jews, and to i-etain 

 the same belief in the ' holiness' of the day; for, by this, the 

 same mysterious significance would still be attributed to par- 

 ticular days, which formerly obtained among the Jews. And 

 truly we see what such a doctrine has profited : for those who 

 adopt it far exceed the Jews in a gross, carnal, and supersti- 

 tious observance of the Sabbath: so that the reproofs which we 

 read in Isaiah are no less applicable to them at the present 

 day, than to those whom the prophet rebuked in his time.'' 

 (^Institutes, lib. ii. cap. 8, sect. 34.) 



So closes Calvin' s admirable exposition of the Sabbath Law. 

 I earnestly hope that neither J. N. B. nor his readers will be 

 misled by any false " appearance" in these partial extracts, to 

 " give them a wrong coloring !" 



" As to BUNYAN," says he, " the ' Fpisile to the Header' &c. 

 will make the matter clearl" Make what matter "clear?" 



