y cites them to the fifth commandment, Matt. xv:
25. Again, "The law and the prophets were until John; since that time
the kingdom of God is preached," &c. Luke xvi: 16. Jesus was three years
after this introducing the gospel of the kingdom, unwaveringly holding
his meetings on the Sabbath days, (which our opponents say were now
about to be _abolished_; others say changed,) and never uttering a
syllable to show to the contrary, but that this was [18]and always
would be the holy day for worship. Mark says when the Sabbath (the
Seventh day, for there was no other,) was come, he began to teach in the
Synagogue, vi: 2. Luke says, "as his _custom_ was, he went into the
Synagogue and taught on the Sabbath day." iv: 16, 31. Will it be said of
him as it is of Paul on like occasions, some thirty years afterwards,
that he uniformly held his meetings on the Sabbath because he had no
where else to preach, or that this day was the only one in the week in
which the people would come out to hear him? Every bible reader knows
better; witness the five thousand and the seven thousand, and the
multitudes that thronged him in the streets, in the citys and towns
where they listened to him; besides, he was now establishing a new
dispensation, while theirs was passing away. Then he did not follow any
of their customs or rites or ceremonies which he had come to abolish.

I have already quoted Matt. v: 17, 18, where Jesus said he had come to
fulfil the law, and immediately begins by showing them that they are not
to violate one of the least of the commandments, and cites them to
some--see vi: 19, 21, 27, 33. Again, he is tauntingly asked "which is
the great commandment in the law: Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind. This is the _first_ and great commandment. And the second is
like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets." xxii: 36, 40. Here
Jesus has divided the ten commandments into two parts, or as it is
written on two tables of stone. The first four on the first table treat
of those duties which we owe to God--the other six refers to those which
we owe to man, requiring perfect obedience.

Once more, "One came and said unto him, good master what good thing
shall I do that I may have eternal life? He said, If thou wilt enter
into life keep the commandments. Then he asked him which? He cited