Our Day: In the Light of ProphecySpicer, William Ambrose
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Our Day: In the Light of Prophecy
Spicer, William Ambrose
Bible -- Prophecies
But in general practice there has been a change--the first day is
commonly observed instead of the seventh day, which the Lord declares he
blessed and made holy. The Roman Catholic Church points exultingly to
the fact that this change, so universally allowed today, has come about
solely through church tradition without Scriptural authority. For
instance, one Catholic writer says:
"You will tell me that Saturday was the _Jewish_ Sabbath, but
that the _Christian_ Sabbath has been changed to Sunday.
Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express
commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said,
Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say,
Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on
the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its
stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how
you can answer.
"You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and
the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the
observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against
the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place
of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep
holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you
believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you
authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with
your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the
Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the
New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly
altered."--_"Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep
the Holy Sabbath Day?" (Burns and Oates London), p. 3._
Every one who studies the question must recognize the fact that there is
no change authorized in Scripture. As Canon Eyton, of the Church of
England, says:
"There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about
abstaining from work on Sunday.... Into the rest of Sunday no
divine law enters."--_"The Ten Commandments" (Truebner & Co.),
London._
Dr. Heylyn, of the Church of England, wrote:
"Take which you will, either the Fathers or the moderns, and we
shall find no Lord's day instituted by any apostolical mandate;
no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of the
week."--_"History of the Sabbath," part 2, chap. 1._
Authorities, both Protestant and Catholic, freely acknowledge that there
is no divine authority for Sunday keeping. There has been a change in
practice and teaching, but with no Scriptural authority.
What the Papacy Claims
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