Remarks on the Different Sentiments Entertained in Christendom Relative to the Weekly Sabbath

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Página 296 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Página 46 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Página 194 - What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that have not ? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ? I praise you not.
Página 96 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Página 215 - Sunday, for it will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is discharged to be kept, or turned into the Sunday ; wherefore it must .be the church's authority that changed the one and instituted the other ; therefore my opinion is, that those who will not keep this feast may as well return to the observation of Saturday, and refuse the weekly Sunday.
Página 296 - ... 4 since God has received him. Who art thou who judgest the servant of another? to his own Lord he stands or falls: he shall indeed stand, for God is able to make him stand. 5 One indeed esteems a day above a day ; but another esteems every day alike : let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6 He who regards a day, regards it for the Lord ; and he who regards not a day, regards it not for the Lord : he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God ; and he who ab7 stains, abstains...
Página 4 - Morer justifies this Sunday labor in the following terms : — " If we read they did any work on the Lord's day, it is to be remembered that this application to their daily tasks was not till their worship was quite over, when they might with innocency enough resume them, because the length of time or the number of hours assigned for piety was not then so well explained as in after ages.
Página 215 - I conceive the celebration of this feast was instituted by the same authority which changed the Jewish sabbath into the Lord's day or Sunday...
Página 275 - St. Paul is there speaking of indifferent matters, that is, of matters not prescribed or forbidden by God, and on which the lawful public Authority had...
Página 214 - Calvin also appears once to have had an intention of fixing the day of Christian worship on Thursday, as he said, " to evince Christian liberty " ; and in a similar spirit Tindal says, " We are lords of the Sabbath, and may change it to Monday or any other day, or appoint every tenth day, or two days in a week, as we find it expedient.

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