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72081 Facts of Faith, p. 105.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath to the Sunday. Dr. N. Summerbell says:

72082 Facts of Faith, p. 105.2 (Christian Edwardson)

“The Roman church had totally apostatized.... It reversed the Fourth Commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God’s word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday.” — “The Christian Church,” p. 415. Cincinnati: 1873.

72083 Facts of Faith, p. 105.3 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath has been changed, Protestants are at a loss to find authority in the Bible for this change. They have rejected the authority of the Roman church …

72084 Facts of Faith, p. 105.4 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question: Who has transferred the Sabbath, and who has had the right to do it? — “Samlede Skrifter i Udvalg …

72085 Facts of Faith

Sabbath.... The change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday was never mentioned, or, as far as I can discover, thought of by the early Christians. The Sabbath, that …

72086 Facts of Faith

… the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh …

72087 Facts of Faith, p. 107.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… this Sabbath question, in this aspect of it, is the gravest and most perplexing question connected with Christian institutions which at present claims …

72088 Facts of Faith, p. 107.3 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also that …

72089 Facts of Faith, p. 108.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… Testament Sabbath with its glory and sanctity over onto the first day of the week.” — “Report of the Second Ecclesiastical Meeting in Copenhagen, Sept. 13-15, 1887 …

72090 Facts of Faith

… the Sabbath upon the Sunday, but it is the Church of the Middle Ages and its scholastic teachers.” — “Sondagens Historie” (The History of Sunday), p. 87. Christiania …

72091 Facts of Faith, p. 112.8 (Christian Edwardson)

That the Christians at this time were still keeping the Sabbath can be seen from the following statement of Hugo Grotius, quoted by Robert Cox, F. S. A. Scot.:

72092 Facts of Faith, p. 112.9 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath - a thing nowhere mentioned either by Christ or His apostles.”’ - “Opera Omnia Theologica,” Hugo Grotius (died 1645), (London: 1679); quoted in “Literature …

72093 Facts of Faith, p. 113.3 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath ... and other legal observances, ought to take place.”’ - ” Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont,” p. 169. Oxford: 1821. Page 154 in the …

72094 Facts of Faith, p. 114.6 (Christian Edwardson)

Sabbath. For on that day in making the world, God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light.” — “Commentary on the Psalms”; quoted in “Literature on the Sabbath Question …

72095 Facts of Faith, p. 116.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… anathematized Sabbath-keepers in the following way:

72096 Facts of Faith, p. 116.3 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let …

72097 Facts of Faith, p. 116.4 (Christian Edwardson)

That the Christians were then keeping the Sabbath we see from Canon XVI of the same council, in which they decreed:

72098 Facts of Faith, p. 116.5 (Christian Edwardson)

“The Gospels are to be read on the Sabbath Day, with the other Scriptures.” — Id., p. 255.

72099 Facts of Faith, p. 116.6 (Christian Edwardson)

Dr. Heylyn also declares that the Christians were keeping the Sabbath at that time:

72100 Facts of Faith, p. 116.7 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath day, to worship Iesus [Jesus] Christ the Lord of the Sabbath.” — “History of the Sabbath” (original spelling retained), Part 2, par. 5, pp. 73, 74. London: 1636.