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8301 Sanctification, p. 89.2 (Daniel T. Bourdeau)
1. This duty is enforced by a divine command. “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith,” is the language of inspiration. 2 Corinthians 13:5. See also 1 Corinthians 11:28; Galatians 6:4 .
8302 Sanctification, p. 89.3 (Daniel T. Bourdeau)
2. Since the heart is deceitful above all things, if we neglect to examine ourselves, we shall fail to obtain a thorough and correct knowledge of our own characters …
8303 Sanctification, p. 89.4 (Daniel T. Bourdeau)
3. By attending to self-examination we shall be enabled to guard against self-deception, which consists in a wrong judgment of our spiritual condition. The grand remedy for self-deception, is self-examination.
8304 Sanctification, p. 89.5 (Daniel T. Bourdeau)
How liable men in every age have been to deceive themselves in regard to their characters, to call good evil, and evil, good, and act accordingly. And how many …
8305 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89.1 (George Ide Butler)
“As for the Saturday, that retained its wonted credit in the Eastern churches, little inferior to the Lord’s day, if not plainly equal; not as the Sabbath, think …
8306 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89.2 (George Ide Butler)
After Constantine’s time, there seems to have been in a measure a revival of interest in, and reverence for, the Sabbath in the minds of many Christians, at least in the Eastern churches, where the influence of the Roman Church was less powerful.
8307 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89.3 (George Ide Butler)
Professor Stewart, in speaking of the period from Constantine to the Council of Laodicea, AD. 364, says:
8308 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89.4 (George Ide Butler)
“The practice of it [the keeping of the Sabbath] was continued by Christians who were jealous for the honor of the Mosaic law, and finally became, as we have seen …
8309 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89 (George Ide Butler)
Christianity Becomes Popular
8310 The Change of the Sabbath, p. 89.5 (George Ide Butler)
The church had by this time become greatly corrupted. When Constantine professed Christianity, it became the popular religion. In order to serve in the army …
8311 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 89.1 (Uriah Smith)
That the reader may appreciate the animus of this attack, let him take in the situation. Mrs. White was a total stranger in Grand Rapids. She came there to talk …
8312 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 89.2 (Uriah Smith)
Let us notice the essential unfairness of this attack, and these quotations from her writings. They are taken, let the reader notice, from Spiritual Gifts …
8313 Facts for the Times, p. 89.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
Eusebius, A. D. 325, as quoted by Dr Chambers, states that in his time, “The Sabbath was observed no less than Sunday.”
8314 Facts for the Times, p. 89.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
M. De La Roque, a French Protestant says:
8315 Facts for the Times, p. 89.3 (Merritt E. Cornell)
“It evidently appears, that before any change was introduced, the church religiously observed the Sabbath for many ages; we of consequence are obliged to keep it.”
8316 Facts for the Times, p. 89.4 (Merritt E. Cornell)
EUSEBIUS in the early part of the fourth century, said:
8317 Facts for the Times, p. 89.5 (Merritt E. Cornell)
“All things whatsoever it was the duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord’s day, [meaning thereby Sunday,] as more appropriately belonging …
8318 Facts for the Times, p. 89.6 (Merritt E. Cornell)
The Waldenses kept the Sabbath. ROBINSON in his History of Baptism says:
8319 Facts for the Times, p. 89.7 (Merritt E. Cornell)
“They were called Sabbati, and Sabbatati, so named from the Hebrew word Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord’s day.”
8320 Facts for the Times, p. 89.8 (Merritt E. Cornell)
“King Charles 1, in a query propounded by him to the Parliament’s Commissioners at Holmby, 1647, says, ‘I conceive the celebration of the feast of Easter was instituted …