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History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

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eferring to <strong>the</strong> first day <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> week.<br />

The questions to be decided by this testimony<br />

are <strong>the</strong>se: Did <strong>the</strong> apostles set apart Sunday for<br />

divine worship (as Mosheim affirms)? or does <strong>the</strong><br />

evidence in <strong>the</strong> case show that <strong>the</strong> festival <strong>of</strong><br />

Sunday, like all o<strong>the</strong>r festivals, was always only a<br />

human ordinance (as is affirmed by Ne<strong>and</strong>er)?<br />

It is certain that <strong>the</strong> New Testament contains no<br />

appointment <strong>of</strong> Sunday for <strong>the</strong> solemn celebration<br />

<strong>of</strong> public worship. And it is equally true that <strong>the</strong>re<br />

is no example <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> church <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem on which<br />

to found such observance. The New Testament<br />

<strong>the</strong>refore furnishes no support[3] for <strong>the</strong> statement<br />

<strong>of</strong> Mosheim.<br />

The three epistles which have come down to us<br />

purporting to have been written in <strong>the</strong> apostolic<br />

age, or immediately subsequent to that age, next<br />

come under examination. These are all that remain<br />

to us <strong>of</strong> a period more extended than that embraced<br />

in <strong>the</strong> statement <strong>of</strong> Mosheim. He speaks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first<br />

century only; but we summon all <strong>the</strong> writers <strong>of</strong> that<br />

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