Exo. xvi: 27, 30. Here he calls the Sabbath "_my commandments and my
laws_." Now the SAVIOR has given his comments on the commandments. See
Matt. xxii: 35, 40. "On these two (precepts) hang ALL the law and the
prophets." Then it would be impossible for the Sabbath to be left out. A
question was asked, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? Says Jesus,
"If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments"--xix. Here he
quotes five from the tables of stone. If he did not mean all the rest,
then he deceived the lawyer in the two first precepts, love to God and
love to man. See also Matt. v: 17, 19, 21, 27, 33. PAUL comments thus.
"The law is holy, and the commandments holy, just and good."
"Circumcision and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping the
commandments of God." "All the law is fulfilled in one word: thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself." JOHN says, "the old commandment is the
WORD from the beginning."--2, 7. Gen. ii: 3. "He carries us from thence
into the gates of the city." Rev. xxii: 14. Here he has particular
reference to the Sabbath. JAMES calls it the _perfect_, royal law of
liberty, which we are to be doers of, and be judged by. Take out the
fourth commandment and the law is imperfect, and we shall fail in one
point.

The uncompromising advocate for present truth, which feeds and nourishes
the little flock in whatever country or place, is the restorer of all
things; one man like John the Baptist, cannot discharge this duty to
every kindred, nation, tongue and people, and still remain in one place.
The truth is what we want.

_Fairhaven_, August 1846. JOSEPH BATES.

[3]THE SABBATH.

FIRST QUESTION IS, WHEN WAS THE SABBATH INSTITUTED?

Those who are in the habit of reading the Scriptures just as they find
them, and of understanding them according to the established rules of
interpretation, will never be at a loss to understand so plain a passage
as the following: "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it;
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made." Gen. ii: 3. Moses, when referring to it, says to the children of
Israel, "This is that which the Lord hath _said_, to-morrow is the REST
of _the_ holy Sabbath unto the Lord." Exod. xvi: 23.

Then we understand that God established the seventh day Sabbath in
Paradise, on the very day when he rested from all his work, and not one
week, nor one year, nor two thousand five hundred