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NOTES.—“They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into
Sunday, the Lord’s day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears;
neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of
the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and authority of
the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten
commandments.”—_Augsburg Confession, Art. XXVIII._
“It [the Roman Catholic Church] has _reversed_ the fourth
commandment, doing away with the Sabbath of God’s Word, and
instituting Sunday as a holy day.”—_N. Summerbell, in __“__History
of the Christians,__”__ page 418._
10. Why did God command Israel to hallow the Sabbath?
“And hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you,
_that ye may know that I am the Lord your God_.” Eze. 20:20.
NOTE.—As the Sabbath was given that man might keep God in mind as
Creator, it can be readily seen that a power endeavoring to exalt
itself above God would first try to cover up or remove that which
calls man’s special attention to his Creator. This could be done
in no other way so effectually as by setting aside God’s
memorial—the seventh-day Sabbath. To this work of the Papacy
Daniel had reference when he said, “And he shall ... think to
change _times_ and _laws_.” Dan. 7:25.
11. Does the Papacy acknowledge that it has changed the Sabbath?
It does.
NOTE.—“_Question._—How prove you that the church hath power to
command feasts and holy days?
“_Answer._—By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday,
which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict
themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other
feast days commanded by the same church.”—_“__Abridgment of
Christian Doctrine,__”__ by Rev. Henry Tuberville, D. D., of Douay
College, France (1649), page 58._
“_Ques._—Have you any other way of proving that the church has
power to institute festivals of precept?
“_Ans._—Had she not such power, she could not have done that in
which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have
substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week,
for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for
which there is no Scriptural authority.”—_“__A Doctrinal
Catechism,__”__ by Rev. Stephen Keenan, page 174._
“The Catholic Church of its own infallible authority created
Sunday a holy day to take the place of the Sabbath of the old
law.”—_Kansas City Catholic, Feb. 9, 1893._
“The Catholic Church, ... by virtue of her divine mission, changed
the day from Saturday to Sunday.”—_Catholic Mirror, official organ
of Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893._
“_Ques._—Which is the Sabbath day?
“_Ans._—Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“_Ques._—Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
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