, 1876-03-19
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have tue precedenoyl. il they desired to rest
they should do this as Chrietians- Wherefore,
II they arc found 70 Judaze, let them be accursed
from Christ Tie aeventh-day Sabbath. was
BoIemnized by Christ, the Apostles and
primitive Christians till the Laodicean Council
uid, in manner, quite abolish the obsesva-
"a. D. SEQ first settled the observation Of the
Lords day. and prohibited the keeping tho Jew
ism Sabbath under an auathema-'
Prof. Stuar. in appendix to GurneF's History,
etc., Ut the Sabbath. pages lis, 1lG, says:
'.The PRACTICE of it Creeping the Sabbash] was
continued by CHRISTIANS who were Jealous Tor the
honor OF the Mosaic law. and finally became,
as We hare seen, predominant throughout Cnllst-
endom. It sras supposed At length that the
fourth commandment did require tho observance
OF the Seycnth-day Sabbath (not merely seV~
enth portion OF tilne), and, reasoning as Chf1s-
kians OF The present day arc won't 70 90 VIZ :
That all which belonged to the Len Conlnatsd-
,nents was iu1mutable and perpetual. the
churches in general came gradually to re-
gard the seyenth-uay Sabbath as altogesnef
s.ered." This refers to period between Con.
stantino's edict a. D. 32l, and tho Council OF
Laodicea, 364.
Str William Domville says, .Six Texts" page
241: Centuries OF the Christian era passed
away before the Sunday Was observed by the
Christian Church AZ Sabbath. History does
not furnish Us With single proof OF
indication that it WAS at any time 40 observed
NNAA8s%AA@A3~
in A. D. 321."
William Truese. D. D., in Morality Of the
Fourth Commandment" p. 2, says: Yet for
some hundred years in the primitive Churcn,
not the Lords Day only, but the seventh day
also Was Ielgioualy observed not BY Eblon and
Cerinthus only but BY pious Christians also as
Baronius writerh, and GomaruA confessoth and
Rlyept also."
Edward Broawood. Professor il Gresham
College in I" learned Treatise Of the Sabbath.
A1,1 nfMltc hor1 q
little do you know Of the ancient condition OF
the Church. il you know it not), that tho ancient
!! Sabbath did remain aud IVES observed (koSesher
With the celebration OF the Lords Day. by tho
after our Savior's death" He further SAYS
ut is commonly believed TINT the Jewish
Sabbath was changed into the Lords Day
by Christian Emperora and they know httie Who
! do not know that the ancient Sabbath did re-
main and WAS observed by the Eastern churches
| $40 years after our Savior'a passion"
| The apostagy that began under Debus IN 251,
On the basis of bapt1aKnal salvation infant bap-
| tism, and the hierarchy, eliminated IN 3l3
| in the full establishment OF the Chutch OF
| union of the Church and State. From that time
the t1ue sul false church became distinct. Nine
Years after this separation, in March 7, A. u.
| 81, Constantiuos cdct making tho heaenen
venerable day Of the sun" the Sabbath OF
t the Empire, WAS issued
until 4. D. $780, eixty-nine years after the Sunday
eaict, snd fley-threo years after ConHtantane
death. The Council Of Laodicea. IL 3644 made
| the sabbath Of the Empire the Sabbath Of the
| Church.
Having now answered Abel Anderson's
| call for proof OF my assertion THAT from
I Jerusalem the Church going east into Armenia
! south into Abyesn1a, and west into Italy, nsee
| the Sabbath for its worshlp~day," will nov
again cali upon him to make good bis assertion
IN his article under data OF Feb 10: - What
1Ir. B. gives as history in last Sunday
| TRIBUNE must be something manufactured fo'
| New Testament and tho Church fathers, Wht
ought to bo authority on this subject"
:! Several of my critics seem not to understand
| the difference between the national and cere
monial Sabbath5 OF tho Jews and Gods hol.
day. I prosose to consider this in anothe
| papo1. =. oAAh1"