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had they made an attempt to do so; hence for their own salvation, Christ
taught his disciples to pray that their flight might not be on that day,
not because it would be wrong to _save their lives_ on that day, which the
Sabbatarian view seems to teach." In the first place Christ never
intimated a word about _their_ Sabbath; it was THE Sabbath, the same that
he had kept. Your sophistical argument about their flight, &c. &c. touches
not the main point. Christ did here recognize THE Sabbath of the Lord
thirty-five years beyond the time which you say it was abolished. At that
time, if it never did before, as you have it, it belonged as much to the
Gentile as the Jew, unless you make another attempt to stretch out the
Jewish dispensation thirty-five years to cover it. His disciples certainly
kept the Sabbath, the day after his death, and you cannot prove by the
scriptures that the disciples ever held a meeting but once of an evening
on the first day. Therefore you must be very much pushed for a Sabbath, to
continually call that day one, as you do, at the same time reiterating,
"_we want none of your inferences!_" Luke also recognizes THE Sabbath
twenty years beyond the resurrection, and shows that Paul kept it, and the
Gentiles also.--Acts xiii: 42, 44. You attempt to destroy all this proof
too, because you say this was the Jews' day for worship, and Paul could
get a better hearing. Don't you see that the Gentiles invited him to
preach to them--they kept the same day, 44th verse. See xvi: 13; here they
are by the river's side. Paul's manner was to reason with them on the
Sabbath; see xvii: 2, and xviii: 4, 11. So was it the custom of the
Saviour; Mark vi: 2, and Luke iv: 16, 31. Now if all this is not _New
Testament_ evidence enough for _honest_ believers, in the absence of any
other testimony for an abolition, or change of the Sabbath, then it is
because men would rather pervert the word of God than keep it.

God's Code of Laws in the New Testament.

"Why do ye transgress the commandments of God."--Matthew xv: 3.

"What is written in the law, how readest thou?"--Luke x: 26.

"Even as I have kept my Father's commandments."--John xv: 10.

"Yea, we establish the law."--Rom. iii: 31.

"The law is holy and the commandment is holy."--Rom. vii: 12.

"Not subject to the law of God."--Rom. viii: 7, also xiii: 8-10.

"But the commandments of God."--1st Cor. vii: 19; 1st Tim. i: 8.

"For whoever shall keep the whole