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72201 Facts of Faith, p. 291.1 (Christian Edwardson)
All will admit that Christ has a perfect right to choose any “sign” He desires, and when He sets forth the Sabbath as the sign, or mark, of His authority and of His sanctifying power, we should accept it with pleasure. ( Ezekiel 20:12, 20; 9:4-6 )
72202 Facts of Faith, p. 291.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath as His sign, the Papacy, in selecting a counterfeit sign, would naturally choose one as near like the genuine as possible, and so it took the very …
72203 Facts of Faith, p. 292.4 (Christian Edwardson)
“A.- By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.
72204 Facts of Faith, p. 292.7 (Christian Edwardson)
J. F. Snyder, of Bloomington, Ill., wrote Cardinal Gibbons asking if the Catholic Church claims the change of the Sabbath as a mark of her power.” The Cardinal through his Chancellor, gave the following answer:
72205 Facts of Faith, p. 293.4 (Christian Edwardson)
We will now let the Catholic Church tell when it changed the Sabbath day. Here is its answer:
72206 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath day? A. - Saturday is the Sabbath day. Q. - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? A.- We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic …
72207 Facts of Faith, p. 293.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… Christian Sabbath,” p. 29. Printed by the “Catholic Mirror,” the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Md., 1893.
72208 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.’ Exodus 20. On the other hand, Christ declares that He is not come to destroy the …
72209 Facts of Faith
‘The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.’ ( Exod. 20:8, 9 ).... Such being God’s command then, I ask again, Why do you not obey it? ...
72210 Facts of Faith, p. 294.2 (Christian Edwardson)
“You will answer me, perhaps, that you do keep holy the Sabbath-day; for that you abstain from all worldly business, and diligently go to church, and say your prayers, and read your Bible at home, every Sunday of your lives.
72211 Facts of Faith, p. 294.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath-day, Sunday is the first day of the week; the Sabbath-day was the seventh day of the week. Almighty God did not give a commandment that men should keep …
72212 Facts of Faith, p. 294.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty …
72213 Facts of Faith, p. 295.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath-Day? ” pp. 2-4, 8. London: Burns and Oates. Found also in “The Clifton Tracts,” Most Rev. John Hughes, D. D.
72214 Facts of Faith, p. 295.3 (Christian Edwardson)
“That the Church has instituted the Sunday as the Lord’s day instead of the Sabbath ... shows forth her great power which she solemnly received from Christ.” — “Manual of the Catholic Religion,” p. 186.
72215 Facts of Faith, p. 295.4 (Christian Edwardson)
Dr. Martin Luther and Melancthon felt the stinging force of this Catholic argument in proof of the power of the papal church, although they knew that the time had not then come for a Sabbath reform. Dr. Eck, disputing with Luther, said:
72216 Facts of Faith, p. 295.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath of the Bible into Sunday and to command Sunday keeping, why should it not have also this power concerning other days? ... If you omit the latter, and …
72217 Facts of Faith, p. 295.7 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath is changed to Sunday, contrary as it seems, to the Ten Commandments; and there is no example over which they make more ado than the change of the Sabbath …
72218 Facts of Faith, p. 296.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… changed Sabbath into Sunday, not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority. With this, to be sure, the last illusion was destroyed, and it was declared …
72219 Facts of Faith, p. 296.5 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath as the mark, or evidence, of her having the power and inspiration from God to legislate in Christ’s stead for His church on earth, and that this power …
72220 Facts of Faith, p. 297.6 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath into Sunday. How conclusive! He must be authorized as Christ’s “Vicar” in order to validly make such a vital change in God’s moral law. That is imperative …