time, (in the beginning) and for many
ages after, but it is not said, that it always _shall be_--it is the
_Sabbath_ day which we are to remember; and so at the close, it is the
_Sabbath_ which was hallowed and blessed and not the _seventh_ day. The
Sabbath then, the holy rest itself, is one thing. The day on which we
are to rest is another." I ask, in the name of common sense, how we
should know how or when to keep the Sabbath if it did not matter which
day. If the President could not see the sanctification of the seventh
day in the decalogue what did he mean by quoting Gen. ii: 3, so often,
where it says "_God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it._"

Again, he says "Redemption is a greater work than creation, hence the
change." Fifthly, God early consecrated the Christian Sabbath by a most
remarkable outpouring of his spirit at the day of Pentecost. And that
Jesus has left us his own example by not saying a syllable after his
resurrection about keeping the _Jewish Sabbath_. He also quotes the four
passages about Jesus and his disciples keeping the first day of the
week. Here, he says, the inference to our minds is _irresistible_--for
keeping the first day of the week instead of the _seventh_. And further
says, "it might be proved by innumerable quotations from the writings of
the Apostolic Fathers," &c. All this may be very true in itself, but it
all falls to the ground for the want of one single precept from the
bible. If Redemption, because it was greater than Creation, and the
remarkable display of God's power at the [31]Pentecost, and Christ
never saying any thing about the _Jewish Sabbath_ after his resurrection
are such _strong_ proofs that the perpetual seventh day Sabbath was
changed to the first day at that time, and must be believed because
learned men say so, what shall we do with the sixth day, on which our
blessed Saviour expired on the cross; darkness for three hours had
covered the earth, and the vail of the Temple was rent from top to the
bottom, and there was such an earthquake throughout vast creation that
we have only to open our eyes and look at the rent rocks for a clear and
perfect demonstration that this whole globe was shaken from centre to
circumference, and the graves of the dead were opened. Matt. xxvii: 50,
53. You may answer me that Popery has honored that day by calling it
good Friday, and the next first day following Easter Sunday, &c., but
after all, nothing short of bible argument