MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 285 



A " partial extract" from Bcnyan. 



duty of a thanksgiving daj, in grateful commemoration of the 

 Messiah^s triumph in becoming " the first fruits of them that 

 slept." Now BuNYAN will readily assent to all my "Pro- 

 positions" excepting the First : and in reference to this first 

 one, he takes just opposite ground from J. N. B. So that my 

 friend is ahsolutely and hopelessly exeluded from using his 

 testimony 07i any one point! For while J. N. B. very correct- 

 ly admits that " there is but one Bible Sabbath'' (p. 46), BuN- 

 YAN will prove to him that Saturday is the only Sabbath re- 

 cognized by the fourth commandment ! With my friend's 

 kind assistance, therefore, our author willindorse alliho; "Pro- 

 positions V An extract ''will make the matter clear." '' This 

 caution in conclusion I would give, to put a stop to this Jewish 

 ceremony, to wit, that a seventh-day Sabbath pursued according 

 to its imposition hy law (and I know not that it is imposed 

 by the apostles), leads to blood and stoning to death^ those 

 that do but gather sticks thereon ; a thing which no way be- 

 comes the Grospel." And in a previous paragraph, it is held 

 that as '' when temple worship and altar worship, and the sa- 

 crifices of the Levitical Priesthood fell, down also came the 

 things themselves : so, when the service or shadow and cere- 

 monies of the seventh-day Sabbath fell, tlie seventh-dai/ Sab- 

 bath fell Iikewise !'' (ques. v.) I trust these extracts do not 

 happen to be " unguarded language/^ and that they do not 

 " give a wrong coloring'' to the author's real opinion. 



In my friend' s concluding paragraph, he sums up with an 

 air of self-satisfaction. ''Now, in whatever details I difier 

 from BuNYAN or Calvin, it is clear that oiir fundamental 

 positions are the same. I commend this fact to my friend W. 

 B. T." (p. 194.) I commend to J. N. B. the fact that he is 

 most sadly mistaken! Their "fundamental positions" are as 

 opposite to /izs, as are the antipodes. They teach, "in demon- 

 stration of the spirit and of power/' that the fourth command- 

 ment is gone to its grave, with the "signs" and "shadows" of 

 the Old Testament. J. N. B. tells us that " the Fourth Com- 



