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Title: A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath

Author: Joseph Bates

Release Date: November 23, 2009 [Ebook #30531]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A VINDICATION OF THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH***

A

Vindication

of the

Seventh-Day Sabbath,

and the

Commandments of God:

with a further history of

God's Peculiar People,

from 1847 to 1848,

By Joseph Bates.

1. "No God but me thou shalt adore;

2. No Image frame to bow before;

3. My Holy Name take not in vain;

4. My sacred Sabbath don't profane;

5. To parents render due respect;

6. All murder shun and malice check;

7. From filth and whoredom base, abstain;

8. From theft and all unlawful gain;

9. False witness flee and slandering spite;

10. Nor covet what's thy neighbor's right."

New Bedford

Press of Benjamin Lindsey

1848

CONTENTS

Preface.
The Sabbath Controversy.
Barnabas Against The Sabbath.
To The Editor Of The "Advent Harbinger."
To the Editor of The Bible Advocate.
Past And Present Experience.
Joseph Bates. Scriptural Observance Of The Sabbath.
Under The Gospel.
The Beginning Of The Sabbath.
The Last Experiment On Definite Time; The Prolonging Of The Days _All_
Failed.
Christ's Second Coming To Gather His People.
A Correction.
Seventh & Fourteenth Of Revelations.
Footnotes

PREFACE.

TO THE LITTLE FLOCK:

I DEDICATE to you the following pages, with my continued prayers to God,
through our Great High