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

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join <strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> make it one festival, though<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was not <strong>the</strong> same reason for <strong>the</strong> continuance<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> custom as <strong>the</strong>re was to begin it."[1]<br />

A learned English first-day writer <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

seventeenth century, William Twisse, D. D., thus<br />

states <strong>the</strong> early history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se two days:--<br />

"Yet for some hundred years in <strong>the</strong> primitive<br />

church, not <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> only, but <strong>the</strong> seventh<br />

day also, was religiously observed, not by Ebion<br />

<strong>and</strong> Cerinthus only, but by pious Christians also, as<br />

Baronius writeth, <strong>and</strong> Gomarus confesseth, <strong>and</strong><br />

Rivet also, that we are bound in conscience under<br />

<strong>the</strong> gospel, to allow for God's service a better<br />

proportion <strong>of</strong> time, than <strong>the</strong> Jews did under <strong>the</strong> law,<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r than a worse."[2]<br />

That <strong>the</strong> observance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Sabbath</strong> was not<br />

confined to Jewish converts, <strong>the</strong> learned Giesler<br />

explicitly testifies:--<br />

"While <strong>the</strong> Jewish Christians <strong>of</strong> Palestine<br />

retained <strong>the</strong> entire Mosaic law, <strong>and</strong> consequently<br />

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