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Title: The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment

Author: Joseph Bates

Release Date: July 18, 2007 [EBook #22098]

Language: English

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THE
SEVENTH DAY SABBATH,

A
PERPETUAL SIGN,

FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE ENTERING INTO THE
GATES OF THE HOLY CITY,

ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT.

BY JOSEPH BATES:

"Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the _beginning_. The old
commandment is the WORD which ye have heard from the
_beginning_." _John_ ii: 7.

"In the _beginning_ God created the heaven and the earth."
Gen. i: 1. "And God blessed the seventh day, and rested from
all his work." ii: 3.

"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have
right to the tree of life and enter in," &c. _Rev._ xxii: 14.

NEW-BEDFORD
PRESS OF BENJAMIN LINDSEY
1846.

[1]PREFACE.

TO THE LITTLE FLOCK.

"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." "Six days work may be done,
but the _seventh_ is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt
not do any work." This commandment I conceive to be as binding now as it
ever was, and will be to the entering into the "gates of the city." Rev.
xxii: 14.

I understand that the _seventh_ day Sabbath is not the _least_ one,
among the ALL things that are to be restored before the second advent of
Jesus Christ, seeing that the Imperial and Papal power of Rome, since
the days of the Apostles, have changed the seventh day Sabbath to the
first day of the week!

Twenty days before God re-enacted and wrote the commandments with his
finger on tables of stone, he required his people to keep the Sabbath.