Lord, sanctify us by thy truth. May the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, whom thou sendest in the name of thy Son our Lord, abide in us and preside in this controversy. May he teach us all things, and bring all things to our remembrance. May all bitterness, and wrath, and malice, and evil-speaking, be far from us; and may we love one another with pure hearts fervently--for Christ's sake. Amen. CHAPTER I. PROPOSITION. That the seventh day of the week is the only weekly sabbath of God's appointment. _First Reason._ My first reason for believing this proposition is, That the original Sabbath law, referred to in Genesis 2:2, 3, and embodied in Exodus 20:8-11, requires the sanctification of no other day. Genesis 2:2, 3.--"And on the seventh day (_on day the seventh_) God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day (_on day the seventh_) from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh DAY (_the day the seventh_,) and sanctified it: because that in IT he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Exodus 20:8, 11.--"Remember the Sabbath-DAY, (_the day of the rest, or Sabbath_,) to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day (_day the seventh_) is the Sabbath (_rest_) of the Lord thy God: _in it_ thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that _is_ within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them _is_, and rested the seventh day (_on day the seventh_;) wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-DAY (_the day of the rest, or Sabbath_,) and hallowed IT." The only object, direct or indirect, of this commandment, is "_the day_." What are we commanded to remember? "The day." What are we required to keep holy? "The day." What did the Lord bless and hallow? "The day." In what are we forbidden to work? In "the day," Now let us inquire--