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rule Of action from God to MAD, to-day rs i: was
before the death OF Christ. To prove Your posi-
t'on you enueavor to establish the exact time
anu place when and where it had its origin sn d
oecame penal law from God to man, and az
such demanding mans implicit obedience, with
re"afda to DO enjoyed aud punishments to he
eoaozcetl. which is tha result of all Divine law.
faui settled the law when he announced tha
| lac' saat Sin WAS the transgreasio Of law. and
WEI. nasn snete was no Law, there could not be auv
| tiansgfession or Sin. HENCE ma SEQ that sin is
sl. .u VOCATION OF Divine law. To es:ab!,sh your
became Law, calling tot mans obedlenc. to Il :
soa 4aoso len. H. DO you affirm and do you
30 seach that tho sav5n days mentioned in Gan
H.. IN which God created the haaysua
Ionr. on 40 e,eS SaREn. were days OF twentv-four
noura each' as We now compute tlrne.
| or was each dsy longer period Of timo :: Al
! in'tt4ne shey were seEen days OF tYeoty-fon,
No11s eacn' can you show ne command from
%uu "r IL Henss's II. for man to keep the Sabbath.
uaS II not, how could nan obey or disobox
when there VAS no law: I Ivsut chapter ana
verse containing Gods commands in Genesis II
Your individual opinions + can tako With n,anx
grams OF allowance, but for all religious truths
and their proof Goda revealed will to man ~
the end Of all controversy is better and hiche.
authority than your opinions
Was not the work Of creation, ~ mentioned io
tenesis L. Gods Uosk and not map'a? TOD
having finished His work OF creation. rastad oc
the seventh day. This work Of creation mar
had nothing to do with 1t was purely Gods
work hence man could not be INCLUDED in the
rest any more than he WIS in tho work, and, ia
assert that he required rest when hs had not
been at work, ia an aosurdity. We see clearly
that man vas not included IN the work OF rest
Again, caQ for God's command in Genesis ii.
for man to keep Sabbath.
Nov, having disposed Of Gen. H., challenge
you to ahow me command from God for any
man OF nation to keep this seventh day, or any
other day, as 4 Sabbath-day, during the patrl-
archai d,apenaation, and. unless you can do go, I
will have shown Jon BY God's o.n appoiatnene
and religious dlspensation, without that Jewish
Sabbath to which you have pinued vo1r faith
which is the same faith the Jews had when they
nailed CHRIST to the cross and cried ont Cruelty
Him, tho 'Bame faith Paul had when he gas
breathing ont threatoningB and slaughter against
al! who held to the faith in Christ
keep = sabhath-lay until after the deliyerspco Of
the children OF lsEaol from their Egyptian boud-
sge7 II 80, please give chapter and verse,
Hoses Tas the 1av-g1yer to the Jews through
Jewish naticn containing a Sabbath, and that
Jewish Sabbath could not last any longer than
the covenant. John, l., II. says: .<For HIS
Law was given by, Mosea but grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ"
his testimony es it ia recorded in Deuteronomy,
r, 1-G: And Noses called ali Israel and saiu
unto them: Hear. Israel, the statutes and
judgments which apeak in your ears this day,
that ye may learn them and keep and do them
Tho Lord our God made n covenant with us in
Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with
our fathers, but with uB, eyen Us, who arc all ot
us here alive this day. The Lord talked With
you face to face in the mount. out Of the midst
chapter. Here God asaigns the reason for com
mandlng the JeWs to observe tho seventh day.
It 10 as follows "And remember that thoa
vast servant in the land Of Egypt, and thar
the Lord thy God brought thee ont themes
through mighty hand aud by an outstretched
azm therefore the Lord thy God commanded
thee to keep the Sabbath-daY" From this VOL
will observe that God commanded the Jews to
keep this day in memory Of their deliYerauce
from bondage, and not because He (God) rested
On the seventh day from His work. The core
napt that God msda with the children Of Israe!
Was the commandments (See Exodus, xxi.
1913 Exodus xxi. 1916: ':And he was
thaIo With the Lord forty days and forty nishia
be wrote upon the tables the words Of tho cove
nant, the tan commandments" Exodus, xxxiv..
Is And He declared unto you His covenant
which He commanded you to perform, eTen ten
and he wrote them upon fwa
came to pass at the end OF forty days and forty
nights that the Lord gave me the two tables Il
'tone. even the tables OF the covenant"
No haTe proven beyond consrnyrsy. from the
Eold OF God. that this MAS the first covenant
iod ever made With man containing Sabbath,
lay. This Sabbath-day was to last as long II
be covenant lasted winch created it az COM
dny. Has God eEer fulfilled tha
romise contained in Jeremiah. xxi, 81 "De-
old the days come saith the Lord that will
lake new covenant With the house Of Israei,
nd with the house Of Judah :" and also the-
1irtY second verse: Notaccordiae to the cove
ant that made With their fathers in the day
1at took them by the hand to bring them ont
the land Of Egypt (which my covenant they
rake. although l Was husband unto them,
nth the Lord)." sEaU1x.