NOTE.—Even in the days of Abraham the same gospel of righteousness by faith was preached as now, while the law made known sin, and witnessed to the righteousness obtained through faith, just as it has done since the cross. From this it is evident that the relation between the law and the gospel has always been the same. 25. What was Christ’s personal attitude toward the law? “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: _I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil_.” Matt. 5:17. “If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as _I have kept My Father’s commandments_, and abide in His love.” John 15:10. 26. What scripture shows that God’s remnant people will have a right conception of the proper relation between the law and the gospel? “Here is the patience of the saints: _here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus_.” Rev. 14:12. PART IX. THE SABBATH [Illustration.] In The Corn-Field On The Sabbath Day. "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." Mark 2:27. Institution Of The Sabbath [Illustration.] The Garden Of Eden. "God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Gen. 2:3. 1. When and by whom was the Sabbath made? “Thus the heavens and the earth, were finished, and all the host of them. And _on the seventh day God ended His work_ which He had made; _and He rested on the seventh day_ from all His work which He had made.” Gen. 2:1, 2. 2. After resting on the seventh day, what did God do? “And God _blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it_: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Verse 3. 3. By what three distinct acts, then, was the Sabbath made? God _rested_ on it; He _blessed_ it; He _sanctified_ it. _Sanctify_: “To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use.”—_Webster._ 4. Did Christ have anything to do with creation and the making of the Sabbath? “All things were made _by Him_; and _without Him was not anything made that was made_.” John 1:3. See also Eph. 3:9; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2. NOTE.—Christ, being the active agent in creation, must have rested on the seventh day with the Father. It is therefore His rest day as well as the Father’s. 5. For whom does Christ say the Sabbath was made? “And He said unto them, _The Sabbath was made for man_, and not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27.