The Anglo-American Sabbath: An Essay Read Before the National Sabbath Convention, Saratoga, August 11, 1863 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Anglo-American Sabbath: An Essay Read Before the National Sabbath Convention, Saratoga, August 11, 1863

A day of sweet refection, A day of sacred love; A day of resurrection From earth to heaven above.

The Sabbath, then, rests upon a threefold basis-the original creation, the Jewish legislation, and the Christian redemption. It answers the physical, moral, and religious necessities of man. It is supported by the joint authority Of the Old and the New Testament, of the law and the gospel. It has still a twofold legal and evangelical aspect, and we must keep both in view in order to do justice to its character, and aim. Like the law in general, the fourth commandment is both negative and positive, prohibitive and injunctive; it is to all men a mirror of God's holiness and our own sinfulness; to the unconverted a whole some restraint, and a schoolmaster to lead them to Christ, and to the converted a rule of holy obedience. But the Sabbath is also a gospel institution: it was originally a gift of God's goodness to our first parents before the fall; it was made for and looks to his physical and spiritual well-being; it was a delight to the pious Of the Old dispensationfi and now under the new dispensation it is fraught with the glorious memories and blessings of Christ's triumph over sin and death, and of the outpouring Of the Holy Ghost; it is the connecting link of creation and redemption, of paradise lost and paradise regained; a reminiscence Of the paradise Of innocence, and an anticipation of the paradise in heaven that can never be lost.

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