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THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH
IS IT OF DIVINE ORIGIN?
"Most ignorant of what he's most assured."
The testimony that I bring is not the testimony of the enemies of Christianity, but of its friends--of its most learned, most loyal, and most honorable defenders. My witnesses include the great apostle, Paul; the most eminent of the Christian fathers; the Protestant reformers; and many more of the church's greatest scholars and divines.
ST. PAUL.
"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind" .
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days" .
JUSTIN MARTYR.
"You, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious.... Our God is not pleased with such observances" .
"You see that the heavens are not idle, nor do they observe the Sabbath" .
IRENAEUS.
"These things , therefore, which were given for bondage, and for a sign to them, he canceled by the new covenant of liberty" .
TERTULLIAN.
"The observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been temporary" .
EUSEBIUS.
"They did not therefore regard circumcision nor observe the Sabbath, neither do we" .
ST. CYRIL.
"Jesus Christ hath redeemed thee. Henceforth reject all observance of Sabbaths" .
ST. EPIPHANIUS.
"God regardeth not outward cessation from works more upon one day than another" .
ST. JEROME.
"Considered in a purely Christian point of view all days are alike" .
"As soon as they returned home on the Lord's day, they sat down severally to their work, and made clothes for themselves and others" .
LUTHER.
"As regards the Sabbath, or Sunday, there is no necessity for keeping it" .
"Paul and the apostles, after the gospel began to be preached and spread over the world, clearly released the people from the observance of the Sabbath" .
"If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake--if anywhere any one sets up its observance upon a Jewish foundation--then I order you to work on it, to dance on it, to ride on it, to feast on it--to do anything that shall reprove this encroachment on the Christian spirit of liberty" .
MELANCTHON.
"The scripture allows that the observance of the Sabbath has now become void, for it teaches that the Mosaic ceremonies are not needful after the revelation of the gospel" .
"The observance neither of the Sabbath nor of any other day is necessary" .
BUCER.
"It is not only a superstition, but an apostasy from Christ, to think that working on the Lord's day, in itself considered, is a sinful thing" .
ZWINGLE.
"It is lawful on the Lord's day, after divine service, for any man to pursue his labors" .
BEZA.
"No cessation of work on the Lord's day is required of Christians" .
ERASMUS.
"It is meet, therefore, that the keeping of the Sabbath day give place to the commodity and profit of man" .
CALVIN.
"The Fathers frequently call the command for the Sabbath a shadowy commandment, because it contains the external observance of the day, which was abolished with the rest of the figures at the advent of Christ.... The same day which put an end to the shadows admonishes Christians not to adhere to a shadowy ceremony" . "Christians, therefore, should have nothing to do with a superstitious observance of days" .
ARCHBISHOP CRANMER.
"The Jews were commanded to keep the Sabbath day, but we Christians are not bound to such commandments of Moses's law" .
WILLIAM TYNDALE.
"We be lords over the Sabbath, and may yet change it into Monday, or into any other day as we see need, or may make every tenth day holy" .
JOHN FRITH.
"We are in manner as superstitious in the Sunday as they are in the Saturday; yea, are we much madder; for the Jews have the word for their Saturday, since it is the seventh day, and they are commanded to keep the seventh day solemn; and we have not the word of God for us, but rather against us, for we keep not the seventh day as the Jews do, but the first, which is not commanded by God's law" .
COLERIDGE.
"The English Reformers took the same view of the day as Luther and the early church" .
DR. HESSEY.
"The Reformers were nearly unanimous on this point. Sabbatarianism of every phase was expressly repudiated by the chief reformers in almost every country" .
JOHN MILTON.
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