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The Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day, Asserted in Seven Sermons
The Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day Asserted in Seven Sermons Author:Daniel Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMON II. THE AUTHORITY AND DIGNITY OF THE SABBATH UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES. Exodus xx. 8 -- 11. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt ihou labour and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. We have proved that the Sabbath was instituted in paradise, by adhering simply to the inspired record. We have also silenced the objection raised on the supposed absence of any vestiges of its observance till the time of Moses. We come now to consider the position which it held under the ceremonial dispensation. And here the objection to its divine authority and obligation rests on its teing merely a ceremonial and temporary appointment, which lost its force with the economy which gave it birth. This difficulty has already been virtually removed. For if the narration in the book of Genesis is correctly given ; if the patriarchs cannot be proved tohave neglected the divine command ; and if at the deliverance from Egypt, Moses clearly referred to it as not effaced from the memory of the people; then the Sab- hath did not owe its birth to the ceremonial law, and cannot have ceased by the abrogation of it. But this is little. As we not only answered the objection advanced against the patriarchal Sabbath, but triumphantly establishe...« less