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

their judgment, labor was not sinful.
Tertullian, at different periods of his life, held
different views respecting the Sabbath, and
committed them all to writing. We last quoted from
him a decisive testimony to the perpetuity of the
Sabbath, coupled with an equally decisive
testimony against the sanctification of the first day
of the week. In another work, from which we have
already quoted his statement that Christians should
not kneel on Sunday, we find another statement
that "some few" abstained from kneeling on the
Sabbath. This has probable reference to Carthage,
where Tertullian lived. He speaks thus:--
"In the matter of kneeling also, prayer is
subject to diversity of observance, through the act
of some few who abstain from kneeling on the
Sabbath; and since this dissension is particularly on
its trial before the churches, the Lord will give his
grace that the dissentients may either yield, or else
indulge their opinion without offense to
others."[31]
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