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71981 In Defense of the Faith, p. 160.7 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath was changed by human and not divine authority, and here we have a full admission of this fact by Mr. Canright. The only difference now left between …
71982 In Defense of the Faith, p. 161.1 (William Henry Branson)
… Catholic Sabbath instead of a Roman Catholic Sabbath. And may we inquire what advantage we have thus gained? Is a Greek Catholic Sabbath better in any particular …
71983 In Defense of the Faith, p. 162.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, by either Greek or Roman therefore in no way alter our obligation to keep the original Sabbath of creation.
71984 In Defense of the Faith, p. 163.4 (William Henry Branson)
… -day Sabbath, had been thought of in their day. All is change followed later, in the wake of the apostasy which engulfed Christendom during the Middle Ages, and …
71985 In Defense of the Faith, p. 164 (William Henry Branson)
The Sabbath Was Kept For Several Centuries
71986 In Defense of the Faith, p. 164.1 (William Henry Branson)
… from Sabbath to Sunday observance. We must find it in history, since it cannot be found in Scripture. As the canon of Scripture closes with the Revelation, we …
71987 In Defense of the Faith, p. 165.4 (William Henry Branson)
It was a number of centuries, however, before the Sabbath began to be superseded by Sunday as a day of rest from labor. On this point the historian Coleman says:
71988 In Defense of the Faith, p. 165.5 (William Henry Branson)
“Down even to the fifth century the observance of the Jewish Sabbath was continued in the Christian church.”— Ancient Christianity Exemplified, chap. 26, sec. 2, p. 527.
71989 In Defense of the Faith, p. 165.6 (William Henry Branson)
“During the early ages of the church, it [Sunday] was ever entitled ‘the Sabbath,’ this word being confined to the seventh day of the week.”
71990 In Defense of the Faith, p. 166.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted that they derived this practice from the apostles themselves, as appears …
71991 In Defense of the Faith, p. 166.4 (William Henry Branson)
“For the first five centuries of the church there is no mention of any transfer or change of the Sabbath to the first day of the week.”— Church History, p. 79.
71992 In Defense of the Faith, p. 166.6 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath to Sunday.”— The History of the Christian Religion and Church, vol. 1, p. 186.
71993 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, part 2, chap. 5, par. 6.
71994 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.6 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath upon the Sunday, but it is the Church of the Middle Ages and its scholastic teachers.”— Sondagens Historie, p. 37.
71995 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.7 (William Henry Branson)
… from Sabbath observance to Sunday observance came in after the first centuries of the Christian Era had passed, especially among the Western churches …
71996 In Defense of the Faith, p. 171.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath? The answer is clear. The emperor was enjoining upon Christians and pagans alike the festival of the sun-god, and was thereby legalizing …
71997 In Defense of the Faith, p. 173.5 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath. Would that prove anything for its sacredness? Was this Roman emperor, who, according to Mr. Canright, was still sacrificing to heathen deities …
71998 In Defense of the Faith, p. 174.1 (William Henry Branson)
… ! The Sabbath law is found in the Word of God. Failing to find a Sunday law there, Mr. Canright resorts to the edict of a half Christian, half pagan emperor, of the …
71999 In Defense of the Faith, p. 175.7 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath (Saturday). This resulted from the influence of paganism upon the Christian church. Of the popularity of sun worship at Rome at that time …
72000 In Defense of the Faith, p. 177.3 (William Henry Branson)
On this point Mr. Canright, as an Adventist writing in 1885, before he had renounced his faith in the Bible Sabbath, truly said: