All days, in one sense, are Lord's days; but there has never been but one _Heaven-appointed_ weekly _Sabbath_, and that, most unequivocally, is the _seventh day_. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy"--"the _seventh day_ is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20:8. If that sacred injunction has been abrogated, we should expect--(for it would be unreasonable to recognize its repeal or transfer, without as explicit and as authoritative a mandate from the Court of Heaven)--at least a _re-enactment_ somewhat thus: "_From the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, ye shall no longer_ SABBATIZE, _but shall give heed to the assembling of yourselves_ ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK; _in it ye shall do no work; and, to avoid the appearance of symbolizing with my ancient people, the Jews_, call it no longer the _Sabbath_, but designate it by the term _Lord's day_!" Is there any intimation of such an _abrogation_, or such a _transfer_ of the _sacredness of the Sabbath_ to _Sunday_, in the _inspired volume_? Not the semblance of it. Even if the early disciples, without any intimation from the _Lord of the Sabbath_, but _of their own accord_, chose to set apart a special day as a _festival day_, as they were wont to do for _martyrs_ and _saints_, it can not, certainly, _supersede_ the _institution of Jehovah_; neither can they confer upon it the sacredness belonging, by the _decree of the Most High_, to _his rest-day_. Indeed, this is so evident, that the erudite and frank NEANDER expressly says, "_Opposition to Judaism introduced the particular festival of Sunday_, very early, indeed, into the place of the _Sabbath_ ... Sunday was distinguished as a _day of joy_, by the circumstance that men did not fast upon it, and that they prayed standing up, and not kneeling, as Christ had raised up fallen man to heaven again through his resurrection. The _festival of Sunday_, like all other festivals, _was always only a_ HUMAN ORDINANCE; and it was far from the intention of the apostles to establish a _divine_ command in this respect--far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to _transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday_. Perhaps at the end of the second century, _a false application of this kind_ had _begun_ to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered laboring on Sunday as a sin."[13] Such, then, is the scriptural account of the Sabbath, and such the frank admission of one of the most distinguished ecclesiastical historians, who could have no motive in perverting or misrepresenting the facts in the case, but who has always shown himself above all mean subterfuges for any purpose whatever. His testimony might be fortified by many names of high authority among writers of eminence, who do not contend for sabbatizing on the seventh day, yet whose candor and honesty constrain them to make the like admission.