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7101 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 8.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… for arguments to sustain it. All these things are significant and worthy of attention. “The Abiding Sabbath” being one of the latest as well as one of the most …

7102 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 9.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… without argument, there being in fact no room for argument between us, because the author of “The Abiding Sabbath,” in these two parts, proves to perfection the …

7103 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 24.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… the arguments there used, the author can make it appear that the first day of the week is “the abiding Sabbath.” Well, to tell in a few words what we shall abundantly …

7104 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 29.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

Besides this, his admission that the decalogue contains transient elements is directly contrary to the argument that he has already made on this very subject. On page 116, he had already written of the ten commandments:—

7105 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 29.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… one argument on these transient elements, he manages to put away the precise seventh day, and to put in its place “the seventh of our time;” by another he is enabled …

7106 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 39.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… . Elliott’s argument allows, that in Christ’s quoted words there is just as much assertion of the power to set the Sabbath “entirely aside,” or do with it any imaginable …

7107 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 41.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… his argument is framed, and his logic displayed, next after the “Testimony of Christ” we come to his so-called “Apostolic Testimony.” Before we record his first …

7108 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 42.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… an argument that ought to be the most conclusive, seeing it was considered worthy of a five-hundred-dollar prize.

7109 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 46.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… sober argument. Nor are we allowed to entertain the charitable view that perhaps it was done ignorantly; for Mr. Elliott himself has given us a perfect exposition …

7110 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 49.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

It most excellently serves his purpose though. His grand argument from “apostolic testimony” he closes thus:—

7111 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 71.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… valid argument that it is not a record of any such thing as the custom of the assemblage of Christians on the first day of the week.

7112 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 78.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… the arguments that are made in support of the first day of the week as the Sabbath, or Lord’s day, the one which above all is the most thoroughly sophistical …

7113 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 90.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… and argument are contrary to the facts. In the first letter to the Corinthians ( 16:2 ), Paul meant just what he said, that on the first day of the week every one should …

7114 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 93.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… an argument to account for this “complete silence,” and to justify it. But knowing and confessing as he does, “the complete silence of the New Testament so far …

7115 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 100.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… . Elliott’s argument that the “influences of government and society which were essential to the complete sanctity of the “Christian Sabbath,” and for which …

7116 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 104.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… -prize argument for Sunday keeping. We have before cited one of the rules laid down by the Rev. Levi Philetus Dobbs, D. D., for proving a thing when there is nothing …

7117 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 105.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… the argument” that proves that Sunday is the Lord’s day and of “perpetual obligation.” An argument in which such a thing as that is counted “an important link …

7118 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 106.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… “the argument can do without it if necessary;” but it is particularly to be noticed that his argument does not do without it, and he deems it of sufficient importance …

7119 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 109.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… the argument for the obligation of Sunday, that was accounted worth a prize of five hundred dollars! We should like very much to see an argument on that question …

7120 The “Abiding Sabbath” and the “Lord’s Day”, p. 111.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)

… of argument throughout, if he should not turn about and upset it all. Accordingly, therefore, he at once destroys the edifice which he has thus so laboriously …