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98541 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 119.2 (Uriah Smith)

Having shown the importance of the question to our faith, he proceeds to combat our claim that the papacy changed the Sabbath to Sunday. On this he says:—

98542 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 120.2 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith that he preached, “but found it not”! While this may or may not be hard on our faith, it is very discreditable to his experience in the ministry, considering …

98543 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 121.2 (Uriah Smith)

… ; our faith may be fully and sufficiently established without doing half that he asks. He will find himself by no means so well prepared to defend the Sunday …

98544 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 124.1 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith of the church. But with all the exhortations to cling to the law and the testimony alone, to the Scriptures of truth, they who follow these false lights …

98546 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 135.2 (Uriah Smith)

… our faith; that; after twenty-eight years of extensive research and earnest longing, he could not find a particle of proof that the Sunday-Sabbath is a child …

98547 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 136.4 (Uriah Smith)

The faithful, being united better than before, became more uniform in matters of devotion; and in that uniformity did agree together to give the Lord’s day …

98548 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 137.5 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith promulgated by Rome was “catholic,” and all dissenters were heretics, to be punished with anathemas from the Church, and more immediate penalties …

98549 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 138.1 (Uriah Smith)

… one faith, whether Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, such as did not, in the space of three months, embrace and profess the Catholic faith, were declared infamous …

98550 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 138.2 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith in the early church. And it must be borne in mind that Justinian and other emperors did not declare any faith, — they simply enforced the faith which …

98551 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 139.2 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith of Christendom, and was backed by the authority of the emperors. In the entire absence of evidence from the Scriptures, in favor of the Sunday institution …

98552 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 141.3 (Uriah Smith)

… Catholic faith, of which the substitution of the Sunday for the Sabbath was a prominent part, of which they had to make a public profession within three months …

98553 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 141.4 (Uriah Smith)

… Catholic faith to which they were subjected, under such severe penalties, was, that people should not rest on the Sabbath, and that they should not work on the …

98554 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 142.2 (Uriah Smith)

… a faithful attendance upon public worship, and a strict observance of the day, by solemn suspension of all secular pursuits, and abstinence from amusements …

98555 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 143.1 (Uriah Smith)

… a faithful attendance upon public worship, and a strict observance of the day,” etc. These were church laws, compelling the strict observance of Sunday, and …

98556 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 144.1 (Uriah Smith)

… divine faith, leisure for attendance on the services of the church of God, in order that they might be able, without impediment, to perform their religious …

98557 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 144.5 (Uriah Smith)

… a faithful historian. It was not as soon as he was established upon his throne that he began this work. His victory over Maxentius was in A.D.312, and his first …

98558 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 146.1 (Uriah Smith)

… of faith and practice from the words of heathen emperors and the man of sin, the son of perdition. I will notice one more like instance.

98559 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 148.5 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith of the church. To be in harmony with Rome was to be orthodox; disagreement with Rome was heresy. But the bishop of Rome had to be governed by the councils …

98560 Replies to Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists, p. 151.1 (Uriah Smith)

… the faith of the Church effective, and in his first decree he referred directly to this canon of the Council of Laodicea.