...whom we arc dependent for all that we possess or hope for, both in time and eternity. And the transfer of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, reminds us of the infinite love which God has manifested to our guilty world, in giving his only begotten...

...declarations of our Lord Jesus Christ, and from the language of the apostle James. The reasons for the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week are given in the third chapter. The reasons given are, first, our Lord's resurrection on the first...

...Approbation given, to confirm any thing. What change was made, and afterwards confirmed by our Lord? A change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. • Rev. i. 10. f John xx. 19 and 26. When was that change mnde ? After our Lord's resurrection from...

...Jewish Sabbath re-established under the cospel dis pensation. (Matt. v. 17; xii. 12. Mark ii. 27.) The change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. (Gen. ii. 2. Ex. xx. 11. Luke xxiii. 56. John xx. 19. Acts xx. 7. 1 Cor. xvi. 2. Rev. i. 10.) The duties...

...an. authority, which I see lately triumphantly appealed to, in a Presbyterian Catechism, in favour of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week;* namely, to the testimony of " all Christian antiquity," which is announced in the circumstance, " that...

...that day which has succeeded to its place. The last supposition, if correct, positively authorizes the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week." The passage, Mat. xxiv. 20, " But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath...

...God, and not in a legal and self-righteous temper. SIXTH. Its change to the first day of the week. 1. The change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, is a question entirely distinct from that of the perpetual obligation of the Sabbath. 2. If the evidence...

...resurrection, which was a sort of closing triumph of the Redeemer's work, should be commemorated by the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. We say then, the common appellation, " the Lord's day ;" its universal observance by all Christians...

...and encouraging conviction, that it is a way set before them by God. And if God's mind, in respect of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, be not revealed to us in so many express terms, but rather indicated to us throughout Scripture, so...

...again be repeated, that the evidence in favour of Episcopacy is the same as that by which we justify the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, and the same as that by which we ascertain the authenticity of the Scriptures themselves. We have no...