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for their practice; while the observers of the first day of the week must confess, with confusion of face, that they are but following
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and can only plead
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as Whitby terms their inconsistencies. Will the Lord admit such a
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Will he suffer such a perversion of his holy institution to go unreproved? Where, reader, can you find in the Bible any authority for appropriating the title of the holy rest-day, the Sabbath, to the first day of the week? If you can not, is it not
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thus to falsify his Word? Is it not base felony every time any worm of the dust thus perversely uses the term which HE, the Sovereign of the Universe, has attached to his holy day--thereby wantonly
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--overturning the decrees of the Lord God? Is it not wresting the Word to your own destruction? If the Lord charge man with robbery in withholding perishable tithes and offerings, and curse him for that delinquency, how much greater, think ye, must be the condemnation of those who set at naught his prerogative to institute and ordain the service of the sanctuary? He alone has the right to impose religious ordinances; and it is but the reasonable service of his creatures to obey, implicitly, his righteous mandates--the sacred injunction, to hallow and sanctify his holy Sabbath.
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Will a man rob God? asks the Almighty, through his prophet;
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Mal. 2:8, 9. Where, then, will you find your excuse for this perversion of the Word of God, when that Word shall come to judge you? for it is the Word, the written Word, (given to be a lamp unto your feet and a light to your path,) which shall judge you at the last day. Of old it was said,
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From the days of your fathers ye are gone astray from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Mal. 3:7. The apostle of the Gentiles speaks of those in his day who corrupted the Word. 2 Cor. 2:17. In another place it is asked, When wilt thou cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Acts 13:10. To which interrogation all are obnoxious who seek out inventions of their own, or follow
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Rom. 3:4.
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Ye are my friends, says Christ,
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John 14:15.
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2:4.
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In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men. Matt. 15:9.
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What thing soever I command you, observe to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Deut. 13:32.
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Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left. Josh. 1:7.
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Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Prov. 30:6.
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If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book; and if any man shall take away from the words of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things that are written in this book. Rev. 22:18, 19. Ponder well this subject, reader, and render unto God the things that are God's, that it may be well with thee, and thou be admitted into the rest reserved for those who