The Seventh Day Sabbath | Page 6

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preaches to the Jews and Greeks (or Gentiles) a year and six months
every Sabbath. Now this must have been seventy-eight in succession.
xviii: 4, 11. Does this look like abolishing the Sabbath day? Has
anything been said about the 1st day yet? No, we shall speak of that by
and by.
Before this he was in Antioch. "And when the Jews were gone out of
the synagogue the GENTILES besought that these words might be
preached to them the next Sabbath. And the next Sabbath day came
almost the whole city together to hear the word of God." xiii: 42, 44.
Here is proof that the Gentiles kept the Sabbath. Now I wish to place
the other strong text which is so strangely adhered to for abolishing or
changing this [11]Sabbath along side of this, that we may understand
his meaning. "Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing
it to his cross."
"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." Coll. ii: 14, 16.
Now here is one of the strong arguments adhered to by all those who
say the seventh day Sabbath was abolished at the crucifixion of our
Lord; while on the other hand by the great mass of the Christian world,

(so called,) the seventh day Sabbath ceased here, and in less than
forty-eight hours the change was made to the first day of the week.
Now remember Paul's manner, (before stated) itinerating from city to
city and nation to nation, always preaching to Jews and Gentiles on the
seventh day Sabbath, (for there is no other day called the Lord's
Sabbath in the Bible.) Now if the Apostle did mean to include the
Sabbath of the Lord God with the Jewish feasts and Sabbaths in the text,
then the course he took to do so, was the strangest imaginable. His
manner always was, as recorded, with the exception of one night, to
preach on the very day that he was laboring to abolish. If you will look
at the date in your bibles, you will learn this same apostle had been
laboring in this way as a special messenger to the Gentiles, between
twenty and thirty years since (as you say) the Sabbath was changed or
abolished, and yet never uttered one word with respect to any other day
in the week to be set apart as a holy day or Sabbath. I understand all the
arguments about his laboring in the Jewish Synagogue on their Sabbath,
because they were open for worship on that day, &c., but he did not
always preach in their Synagogues. He says that he preached the
Kingdom of God, and labored in his own hired house for two years. He
also established a daily meeting for disputation in the school of
Tyranus. Acts xix: 9. Again he says, I have "kept back NOTHING that
was PROFITABLE unto you. (Now if the Sabbath had been changed or
abolished, would it not have been profitable to have told them so?) and
have taught you publicly, and from house to house." "For I have not
shunned to declare unto you ALL the council of God."--Acts xx: 20, 27.
Then it is clear that he taught them by example that the Sabbath of the
Lord God was not abolished. Luke says it was the custom (or manner)
of Christ [12]to teach in the synagogues on the Sabbath day. iv: 16, 31.
Mark says, "And when the Sabbath day was come he began to teach in
their synagogue." Mark vi: 2.--Now if Jesus was about to abolish or
change this Sabbath, (which belonged to the first code, the moral law,
and not the ceremonial, the second code, which was to be nailed to his
cross, or rather, as said the angel Gabriel to Daniel, ix: 27, "he (Christ)
in the midst of the week shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease,"
meaning that the Jewish sacrifices and offerings would cease at his
death.) Jesus did not attend to any of the ceremonies of the Jews except
the passover and the feasts of tabernacles. Why did he say, "Think not I

am come to destroy the law or the prophets? I am not come to destroy
but fulfill. One jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law 'till all
be fulfilled." "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments" &c. Did he mean the ten commandments? Yes; for he
immediately points out the third, not to take God's name in vain; sixth
and seventh, not to kill nor to commit adultery, and styles them