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History of the Sabbath by J.N Andrews18 Maxson's Hist. Sab. p. 41.19 Manual of the Seventh-day Baptists, p. 16.20 Martyrology of the Churches of Christ, commonly called Baptists, during the era of theReformation. From the Dutch of T. J. van Braght, London, 1850, vol. i. pp. 113, 114.21 Id. p. 113.22 Manual of the S.D. Baptists, p. 16.23 Wall's History of Infant Baptism, vol. ii. p. 379, Oxford, 1835.24 I know of no exception to this statement. If there be any it must be found in the cases ofthose observing both seventh and first days. Even here, there is certainly no such thing assprinkling for baptism, but possibly there may be the baptism of young children.25 Hist. English Baptists, vol. pref. pp. 43, 44.26 Maxson's Hist. Sab. p. 42.27 Gen. Hist. Bapt. Denom. vol. ii. p. 414, ed. 1813.274
Chapter Twenty Five – How and When Sunday Appropriated the Fourth CommandmentCHAPTER 25HOW AND WHEN SUNDAY APPROPRIATED THE FOURTHCOMMANDMENTThe light of the Reformation destroyed many of the best Sunday arguments of thepreceding Dark Ages - The controversy between the Presbyterians and Episcopalians ofEngland brings Sunday sacredness to the test - The former discover the means of enforcingthe observance of Sunday by the fourth commandment - How this can be done - Effects ofthis extraordinary discovery - History of the Sunday festival concluded.The light of the Reformation necessarily dissipated into thin air many of the most substantialarguments by which the Sunday festival had been built up during the Dark Ages. The roll thatfell from Heaven - the apparition of St. Peter - the relief of souls in purgatory, and even of thedamned in hell - and many prodigies of fearful portent - none of these, nor all of themcombined, were likely longer to sustain the sacredness of the venerable day. True it was thatwhen these were swept away there remained to sustain the festival of Sunday, the canons ofcouncils, the edicts of kings and emperors, the decrees of the holy doctors of the church, and,greatest of all, the imperious mandates of the Roman pontiff. Yet these could be adduced alsoin behalf of the innumerable festivals ordained by the same great apostate church. Suchauthority would answer for the Episcopalian, who devoutly accepts of all these festivals,because commanded so to do by the church; but for those who acknowledge the Bible as theonly rule of faith, the case was different. In the latter part of the sixteenth century, thePresbyterians and Episcopalians of England were involved in such a controversy as broughtthis matter to an issue. The Episcopalians required men to observe all the festivals of thechurch; the Presbyterians observed Sunday, and rejected all the rest. The Episcopaliansshowed the inconsistency of this discrimination, inasmuch as the same church authority hadordained them all. As the Presbyterians rejected the authority of the church, they would notkeep Sunday upon that ground, especially as it would involve the observance also of all theother festivals. They had to choose therefore between the giving up of Sunday entirely, andthe defense of its observance by the Bible. There was indeed another and a nobler choice thatthey might have made, viz., to adopt the Sabbath of the Lord, but it was too humiliating forthem to unite with those who retained that ancient and sacred institution. The issue of thisstruggle is thus related by a distinguished German theologian, Hengstenberg:-"The opinion that the Sabbath was transferred to the Sunday was first broachedin its perfect form, and with all its consequences, in the controversy which wascarried on in England between the Episcopalians and Presbyterians. ThePresbyterians, who carried to extremes the principle, that every institution ofthe church must have its foundation in the Scripture, and would not allow thatGod had given, in this respect, greater liberty to the church of the NewTestament, which his Spirit had brought to maturity, than to that of the Old,charged the Episcopalians with popish leaven, and superstition, and subjectionto the ordinances of men, because they retained the Christian feasts. TheEpiscopalians, on the other hand, as a proof that greater liberty was granted tothe New Testament church in such matters as these, appealed to the fact thateven the observance of the Sunday was only an arrangement of the church. ThePresbyterians were now in a position which compelled them either to give up275
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