Produced by Heiko Evermann, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH A PERPETUAL SIGN FROM THE BEGINNING, TO THE ENTERING INTO THE GATES OF THE HOLY CITY ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT. BY JOSEPH BATES. "Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the _beginning_. The old commandment is the WORD which ye have heard from the _beginning_." _John_ ii: 7. "In the _beginning_ God created the heaven and the earth." _Gen._ i: 1. "And God blessed the seventh day, and rested from all his work." ii: 3. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life and enter in," &c. _Rev._ xxii: 14. [SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED] NEW BEDFORD: PRESS OF BENJAMIN LINDSEY 1847 [ii]PREFACE TO THE LITTLE FLOCK. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." "Six days work may be done, but the SEVENTH is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." This commandment I conceive to be as binding now as it ever was, and will be to the entering into the "gates of the city." Rev. xxii: 14. I understand that the SEVENTH day Sabbath is not the LEAST one, among the ALL things that are to be restored before the second advent of Jesus Christ, seeing that the Imperial and Papal power of Rome, since the days of the Apostles, have changed the seventh day Sabbath to the first day of the week!