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Wherever, for a thousand years and upwards, we meet with _Sabbatum_, in any writer, of what name soever, it must be understood of no day but _Saturday_. Indeed, if we search all the books which have been written on this and kindred subjects up to the time of the Reformation, we shall not find that the first day was to any considerable extent regarded as the Sabbath or called by that name. Dr. Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, in a late work on the subject of the Sabbath, says,