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or that they should
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These precepts are in close connection with that requiring the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, and _stand or fall with it_. The truth of the case is, that the law containing the weekly Sabbath is the law both of the Old Testament and of the New. There is no Christian Sabbath distinct from the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. If this be a correct view--and we see not how it can be gainsayed--we in this respect perform our duty as subjects of God's moral government only when we exhort men to
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and when we labor to impress them with the annexed fact, that
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To their own Master they stand or fall. The only ground which we would assume is that which was occupied by the Apostle Paul when he said,
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It is written, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. And also by the Saviour,
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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. And again,
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Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Surely,
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How can we bear to see one of his commandments made void by human tradition?--to see the flock of Jesus divided concerning this question, where union is so necessary and desirable?--to witness the unavoidable interruptions occasioned by the different parties, and the triumph of the adversaries of religion?--to observe those for whom Christ died grossly misled by mistaken teachers, provoking the Most High by neglecting to keep a day which he has made sacred, and transferring the sacredness of his own appointment to an ordinance of men, or, what is still worse, regarding the original institution as annulled, and placing in its stead a day merely of memorial of the resurrection and of worship, divested of the main characteristics of the Sabbath, and resting upon no solid basis--its foundation, at best, being _mere probability_ and _conjecture_? Must it not, of necessity, be very painful to us, to see those who are our neighbors, and by profession our fellow Christians, in a case so clear and important, and involving such high and permanent interests, contented with such evidence as they would blush to introduce in relation to almost any other point? How can we bear to see _Protestants_, whose avowed maxim is, that
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dispensing with their own rule, in not requiring expressly a