h I take the liberty to make some quotations.

But to the Quarterly Review of 1830: "It is said that the observance of
the seventh day Sabbath is transferred in the Christian church to the
first day of the week. We ask by what authority, and are very much
mistaken if an examination of all the texts of the New Testament, in
which the first day of the week or Lord's day is mentioned, does not
prove that there is no divine or Apostolic precept enjoining its
observance, nor any certain evidence from scripture that it was, in
fact, so observed in the times of the Apostles. Accordingly we search
the scriptures in vain, either for an Apostolic precept, appointing the
first day of the week to be observed in the place of the Jewish Sabbath,
or for any unequivocal proof that the first christians so observed
it--there are only three or, at most four places of scripture, in which
the first day of the week is mentioned. The next passage is in Acts xx:
7. 'Upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to
break bread, Paul preached unto them.' All that St. Luke here tells us
plainly is, that on a particular occasion the christians of Troas met
together on the first day of the week to celebrate the Eucharist and to
hear Paul preach. This is the only place in [29]scripture, in which the
first day of the week is in any way connected with any acts of public
worship, and he who would certainly infer from this _solitary instance_
that the first day of every week was consecrated by the Apostles to
religious purposes, must be far gone in the art of drawing universal
conclusion from particular premises."

On page 178, Mr. Fisher says, "I have examined several different
translations of the scriptures, both from the Hebrew and the Septuagint,
with notes and anotations more extensive than the texts; have traced as
far as my leisure would permit, various ecclesiastical histories, some
of them voluminous and of ancient date; have paid considerable attention
to the writings of the earliest authors in the christian era, and to
rare works, old and of difficult access, which treat upon this subject;
I have read with care many of the publications of sectarians to sustain
the institution; I have omitted nothing within my reach, and I have
found not one shred of argument, or authority of any kind, that may not
be deemed of partial and sectarian character, to support the institution
of the first day of the week as a day of peculiar holine