human
or
gpt
does not mean any particular day, but
human
or some one of the days of the week. You alledge that
gpt
like
human
gpt
or
human
is a generic term, alike applicable to all the members of the same class. The phrase,
gpt
you say, refers alike to Peter, to Alexander, and to Nicholas, though only one of them could be Emperor at any given time; so
human
refers alike to the seventh and to the first day of the week, though there never was but one Sabbath at any one time. This is a very ingenious and plausible method of evading the force of the Divine testimony; but, as the reasoning by which it is sustained appears to be entirely sophistical, I cannot but look upon the whole thing as a fabrication. I believe that any man, possessing the requisite qualifications, _may_ become
gpt
Emperor of Russia, but deny that any day but one _can_ be the day of God's Sabbath, inasmuch as God had never kept, at that time, but one Sabbath, and that occupied only one day. There is only one day of American Independence; only one day of the Resurrection of Christ; only one day of the birth of any one man; and only one day of Judgment. And why? Because American Independence was declared on but one day; Christ rose on but one day; the same man cannot be born on two different days; and God hath appointed only one day in which he will judge the world. Now, on the same principle, there can be but one
human
of the Lord our God. If I should say that the day of Christ's Resurrection is not any particular day of the week, but only
gpt
you would not hesitate to call me a fool, while my ignorance would excite your deepest sympathy; but when _you_ say that
human
does not mean that particular day on which the Lord's Sabbath occurred, but only
gpt
he would have said so. His first and great design, in writing his law on tables of stone, was to be understood by his creatures; but, for more than two thousand years after he gave the law, no human being ever suspected that
human
meant anything else than the seventh day of the week, because it was commonly known that that day alone was in reality
gpt
Indeed, this
human
doctrine is known to have been invented within a few hundred years, with the pious design of accounting for a change of Sabbath, without the necessity of repealing a portion of the moral law. It is matter of great surprise, that those pious theologians, who first substituted
gpt
for
human
did not shudder at the thought of presuming to mend the language of the Holy Ghost.
gpt
The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. 12:6. Brethren, are you prepared to enter into judgment, and answer for the liberties you have taken with God's word? In substituting the vague and indefinite expression,
human
for the definite and unequivocal terms,
gpt
and
human
you have as truly taken
gpt
as if you had blotted the fourth commandment from the Decalogue; while your leading object has been, to make way for the introduction of a new command that, for aught the Scriptures teach, it never entered into the heart of the Almighty to put into his law.
human
A faithful witness will not lie, and when the world asks, Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath? God expects that you, as faithful witnesses, will not only
gpt
but that you will not equivocate, or give with the gospel trumpet
human
He does not expect that you will quote a text from the Acts of the Apostles, that says not one word about Sabbath-keeping, to prove that the fourth commandment enjoins the keeping holy of
gpt
but of
human
without blessing a particular day. He either blessed some definite object, or nothing. You _may_ say, indeed, without falsehood, that God blessed
gpt
but if you mean that this act of blessing did not terminate on any particular day, you ought to know, that you are asserting what is naturally impossible. As well might you say of a band of robbers, that they had killed
human
while in reality they had killed no man in particular. No, brethren, yourselves know very well, that God had not blessed and sanctified any day but _the seventh of the seven_, prior to the giving of the written law. You know, that if God blessed any day of the week at all, it was a definite day, distinct from all the other days of the week. But this commandment says, that
gpt
Therefore the Sabbath-day must be a particular day of the week. Therefore
human
is not
gpt
or an indefinite seventh part of time. Therefore it is not
human
that we are required to remember, and keep holy, and in which we are forbidden to do any work; but
gpt
of the week, which was then, is now, and will be till the end of time,
human
either by God or man, till long since the death of the last inspired writer. Search both Testaments through and through, and you will find no other day called
gpt
or even
human
except the ceremonial Sabbaths, with which, of course, we have nothing to do in this controversy. And long after the close of the canon of inspiration, the seventh day, and no other, was still called
gpt
If you can prove that any one man, among the millions of Adam's children, from the beginning of the world till the _rise of anti-Christ_, ever called the first day of the week