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made repeated visits to his disciples on that day. 3d. It is called the
Lord's day. Rev. i: 10. 4th. On this day the Apostles were assembled,
when the Holy Ghost came down so visibly upon them to qualify them for
the conversion of the world. 5th. On this day we find Paul at Troas when
the disciples came together to break bread. 6th. The directions the
Apostles gave to Christians plainly alludes to their assembling on that
day. 7th. Pliny bears witness of the first day of the week being kept as
a festival in honor of the resurrection of Christ."

"Numerous have been the days appointed by man for religious services,
but these are not binding because of _human_ institution. Not so the
Sabbath. It is of _divine_ institution, so it is to be kept holy unto
the Lord."

Doct. Dodridge, whose ability and piety has seldom or rarely been
disputed, comments on some of the above articles thus: (Commentary p.
606.) "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in
store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
come." 1 Cor. xvi: 2. "Show that it was to be put into a [28]common
stock. The argument drawn from hence for the religious observance of the
first day of the week in these primitive churches of Corinth and Galacia
is too _obvious_ to need any further illustration, and yet too important
to be passed by in entire silence." Again, p. 904, "I was in the spirit
on the Lord's day," &c. Rev. i: 10. "It is so very unnatural and
contrary to the use of the word in all other authors to interpret this
of the Jewish Sabbath, as Mr. Baxter justly argues at large, that I
cannot but conclude with him and the generality of Christian writers on
this subject, that this text _strongly_ infers the extraordinary regard
paid to the first day of the week in the Apostle's time as a day
solemnly consecrated to Christ in memory of his resurrection from the
dead." There is much more, but these are his strong arguments. I shall
quote some more from the Commentaries by and by. I wish to place by the
side of these arguments one from the British Quarterly Theological
Review and Ecclesiastical Recorder, of Jan. 1830, which I extract from
'the _Institution of the Sabbath day_,' by Wm. Logan Fisher, of
Philadelphia, a book in which there is much valuable information on this
subject, though I disagree with the writer, because his whole labor is
to abolish the Sabbath; yet he gives much light on this subject, from
whic