Romans 5:12, 19--"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous." Galatians 3:10--"For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." On these passages it may be remarked-- 1. "God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him, _and all his posterity_ to personal, exact, _entire_, and _perpetual_ obedience." 2. "This law, after his fall, continued to be _a perfect rule of righteousness_; and, _as such_, was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai in ten commandments, and written in two tables." Therefore, the fourth commandment and the Sabbath law of the covenant of works are _one and the same law_; and all believers in Christ are now bound by this law, _as a rule of life_, to remember and keep holy the _same Sabbath-day_ that Adam and all his posterity covenanted to remember and keep holy. 3. You admit that Adam, _and all his posterity_, pledged themselves to keep holy the seventh day of every week, _and no other_. Therefore, _we_ are all born under a solemn obligation, our own obligation in Adam, to keep holy that same seventh day of every week as long as we remain on earth: "_Neither doth Christ in the gospel any way dissolve but much strengthen this obligation_." 4. It is now too late to alter the covenant of works, by substituting some other day of the week for the seventh, for the following reasons:-- First--Because the whole transaction was finished, in the person of our representative, nearly six thousand years ago. The covenant was made, the obligation assumed, the deed of transgression consummated, the curse pronounced, and the bitter _death_ experienced, in _kind_, though not _in degree_, and all this before the first revelation of the mercy of God in Christ. We are, therefore, all of us, the very moment we are born, accursed of God, for not having kept holy the seventh day of the week, according to our covenant. And all who are not redeemed therefrom by Christ, remain forever under this curse. From which it is plain, that to substitute some other day for the seventh, since the fall of man, is as impossible as it would be to substitute _some other tree_ for the "tree of knowledge." To all who admit that God made a covenant of works with all mankind _in Adam_, these truths ought to be self-evident. Brethren, _we_ acknowledge that we are all guilty before God of having eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, while we disclaim _any guilt whatever_ in regard to the fruit of every other tree; so are we guilty of violating the rest of the seventh day of the week, while we are not by nature guilty of polluting any other day.