he side of these arguments one from the British Quarterly
Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Recorder, of Jan. 1830, which I
extract from 'the _Institution of the Sabbath day_,' by Wm. Logan
Fisher, of Philadelphia, a book in which there is much valuable
information on this subject, though I disagree with the writer, because
his whole labor is to abolish the Sabbath; yet he gives much light on
this subject, from which I take the liberty to make some quotations. But
to the Quarterly Review of 1830:

"It is said that the observance of the seventh day Sabbath is
transferred in the Christian Church to the first day of the
week. We ask by what authority, and are very much mistaken if
an examination of all the texts of the New Testament, in which
the first day of the week or Lord's day is mentioned, does not
prove that there is no divine or Apostolic precept enjoining
its observance, nor any certain evidence from scripture that
it was, in fact, so observed in the times of the Apostles.
Accordingly we search the scriptures in vain, either for an
Apostolic precept, appointing the first day of the week to be
observed in the place of the Jewish Sabbath, or for any
unequivocal proof that the first christians so observed
it--there are only three or, at most four passages of
scripture, in which the first day of the week is mentioned.
The next passage is Acts xx: 7. 'Upon the first day of the
week when the disciples some together to break bread, Paul
preached unto them.' All that St. Luke here tells us plainly
is, that on a particular occasion the christians of Troas met
together on the first day of the week to celebrate the
Eucharist and to hear Paul preach. This is the only place in
scripture in which the first day of the week is in any way
connected with any acts of public worship, and he who would
certainly infer from this SOLITARY INSTANCE that the first day
of every week was consecrated by the Apostles to religious
purposes, must be far gone in the art of drawing universal
conclusion from particular premises."

On page 178, Mr. Fisher says:

[33]"I have examined several different translations of the
scriptures, both from the Hebrew and Septuagint, with notes
and annotations more extensive than the texts; have traced as
far as my leisure would permit, various ecclesiastical