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The '•■ Six Propositions." 



but as a type or '^ shadow" of a succeeding spiritual Sabbat- 

 ism. 



■^ III. In full illustration of all wliich, Jesus openly, repeat- 

 edly, and studiously violated the Sabbath ; and in assertion of 

 his pre-eminent authority to neglect it, or set it aside (as being 

 himself its very ''body" and true fulfilment), claimed to be 

 absolute " Lord" of the Institution. 



IV. Wherefore, its observance never received the slightest 

 token of encouragement in the New Testament, nor its dese- 

 cration the slightest intimation of disapproval : — an affirmation 

 which cannot be made of any known Christian duty. 



V. Moreover, by a formal canon of the apostolic Council at 

 Jerusalem, the Gentile Churches were declared entirely free 

 from Sabbath observance ; being explicitly exempted from 

 obligation to aiiy part of ^'the Law of Moses," excepting 

 three "necessary things" which did not include this ordinance. 



VI. And accordingly, throughout the Apostolic Epistles, 

 the Sabbath is invariahly referred to as a provisional symbol, 

 entirely superseded by the advent of "the true image of the 

 thing" it did but shadow ; the enjoyment of the spiritual 

 Rest of the Grospel, rendering the continued observance of the 

 carnal Rest of the Law, inappropriate and unchristian. 



W. B. T. 



