...seventh part of time is positive. God alone could discern the fittest portion of time for the Sabbath. The change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week is cercmonial. This change was made by Jesus Christ, the Lurd of the Sabbath. In this we observe a...

...has designed for his worship in all successive ages, " we will rejoice, and be glad in it." The same change of the sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, or to the eighth day from the creation, is foretold with equal clearness by a succeeding prophet. "And...

...time is positive." God alone eould diseern the fittest portion of time for the Sabbath. The ehaage of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week is eeremonial. This ehange was made by Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath. In this we observe a...

...says, ceased from it, as God did from his, Heb. iv. 1O. 2. It was expedient, that God should alter the Sabbath, from the seventh to the first day of the week ; for, (1.) Hereby Christ took occasion to give a display of his glory, and in particular of his sovereign...

...to premise, 1. That it does not, in the least, derogate from the honour and glory of God, to change the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. It would, indeed, derogate from the glory of God, if he should take away one Sabbath, and not institute...

...Martyr in his Apologies, and in his letter to * S.VITRIN is here brief on the reasons assigned for the change of the Sabbath, from the seventh to the first day of the week' The reader, however, may see them at large in the second volume of Dr. Lightfoot's works, and in the...

...but the will and command of Christ, i Cor. xi, 23. Q. How prove ynu the reasonableness of changing the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. A. Because resting from the purchase of redemption is more glorious than resting from creation-work,...

...prove that we are strictly bound by this divine precept to keep one day in seven holy to the Lord ; and that the change of the Sabbath, from the seventh to the first day of the week oa which our Lord rose from the dead, bears such evident signatures of divine authority, as are sufficient...

...knowledge he had obtained from experience, his progenitors, or Jehovah himself. We shall notice — (3.) The Change of the Sabbath from the Seventh to the First day of the week. — And First, we contend for it from Scripture Testimony. — The work of creation, by the Father,...

...dead ; that the apostles assembled, preached, and administered the Lord's Supper; and that it has thus been kept by the church for several ages, if not from...day of the week, was effected by Constantine, upon bis conversion to the Christian religion. The three following propositions contain a summary of the...