_do_
his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city." xxii: 14. Now it seems to me
that the seventh day Sabbath is more clearly included in these
commandments, than thou shalt not steal, nor kill, nor commit adultery,
for it is the only one that was written at the creation or in the
_beginning_. He allows no stopping place this side of the gates of the
city. Then, if we do not keep that day, John has made out his case, that
we are all _liars_. We say in every other case the type must be
continued until it is superseded by the antitype, as in the case of the
passover, until our Lord was crucified. So then, as Paul tells us,
"there remaineth a keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God," and
that we believe will be in the Milenium, [25]the seven thousandth year,
so that the seventh day Sabbath and no other will answer for the type,
and those who keep the first or the eighth day Sabbath cannot
consistently look for the antitype of rest or the great Sabbath, short
of one thousand years in the future.

Again: Isaiah says: "To the law and to the testimony if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." viii:
20. Now if the Gentiles are under no law, as 'is asserted,' pray tell me
what right, as Gentiles, have we to appeal to the law and testimony, or
to this text.

In the xxiv. of Matt. our Saviour says to his disciples, in answer to
their questions, When shall these things be? and what shall be the sign
of thy coming, and the end of the world? "When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in
the holy place," &c. 15v. "Pray ye that your flight be not in the
winter, neither on the Sabbath day." 20v. The first question is, at what
age of the world is this, where our Lord recognizes the Sabbath? 1st. It
is agreed on all hands that this time to which he here refers, never
transpired until the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, about forty
years after his crucifiction. 2d. Some others say, down to the second
Advent! The first mentioned is safe ground and sufficient for our
purpose; nor need we stop to inquire why our Lord gave these directions,
it is forever settled that he directed the minds of his followers to
THE, not _a_ Sabbath. Keep it in remembrance, that he told the Pharisees
that he was Lord, not of _a_, but of THE Sabbath, meaning that one which
of course had alrea