EXAMINATION OF THE SIX TEXTS IN REFERENCE TO THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SUNDAY, NOT AS A SABBATH, BUT VI. 116 THE SABBATH. CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks and Statement of the Six Texts commonly adduced from the Christian Scriptures in proof of a Christian Sabbath. EVERY one who has been brought up, as most of us have been, in the unsuspecting belief that our Sunday Sabbath is an institution enjoined by Divine authority, and who may, nevertheless, become desirous of satisfying himself by inquiry, as to the sufficiency of the evidence in support of that belief, will in the very outset of his inquiry be forcibly struck by one remarkable fact; and that is, the advantage which the Jew possesses over the Christian with regard to the evidence in favour of their respective Sabbaths. Why should this be, if the Christian as well as the Jewish Sabbath be an ordinance of God? Why should the Jew be enabled to refer to his Scriptures as the authority for his Saturday Sabbath, and to point to an B |