History of the Sabbath and first day of the week

by John Nevins Andrews

Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 14, 1873.

CONTENTS

[PART I.—BIBLE HISTORY.]
	PAGES.
CHAPTER I.
THE CREATION,	[9-13]
CHAPTER II.
THE INSTITUTION OF THE SABBATH,	[13-32]
CHAPTER III.
THE SABBATH COMMITTED TO THE HEBREWS,	[33-44]
CHAPTER IV.
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT,	[44-50]
CHAPTER V.
THE SABBATH WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD,	[51-64]
CHAPTER VI.
THE SABBATH DURING THE DAY OF TEMPTATION,	[64-82]
CHAPTER VII.
THE FEASTS, NEW MOONS, AND SABBATHS, OF THE HEBREWS,	[82-92]
CHAPTER VIII.
THE SABBATH FROM DAVID TO NEHEMIAH,	[92-109]
CHAPTER IX.
THE SABBATH FROM NEHEMIAH TO CHRIST,	[109-114]
CHAPTER X.
THE SABBATH DURING THE LAST OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS,	[115-157]
CHAPTER XI.
THE SABBATH DURING THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES,	[158-192]
[PART II.—SECULAR HISTORY.]
CHAPTER XII.
EARLY APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH,	[193-203]
CHAPTER XIII.
THE SUNDAY-LORD’S DAY NOT TRACEABLE TO THE APOSTLES,	[204-228]
CHAPTER XIV.
THE FIRST WITNESSES FOR SUNDAY,	[228-243]
CHAPTER XV.
EXAMINATION OF A FAMOUS FALSEHOOD,	[243-258]
CHAPTER XVI.
ORIGIN OF FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE,	[258-281]
CHAPTER XVII.
THE NATURE OF EARLY FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE,	[282-308]
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE SABBATH IN THE RECORD OF THE EARLY FATHERS,	[308-331]
CHAPTER XIX.
THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY DURING THE FIRST FIVE CENTURIES,	[332-368]
CHAPTER XX.
SUNDAY DURING THE DARK AGES,	[368-398]
CHAPTER XXI.
TRACES OF THE SABBATH DURING THE DARK AGES,	[398-432]
CHAPTER XXII.
POSITION OF THE REFORMERS CONCERNING THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY,	[432-446]
CHAPTER XXIII.
LUTHER AND CARLSTADT,	[446-459]
CHAPTER XXIV.
SABBATH-KEEPERS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY,	[459-470]
CHAPTER XXV.
HOW AND WHEN SUNDAY APPROPRIATED THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT,	[470-479]
CHAPTER XXVI.
ENGLISH SABBATH-KEEPERS,	[479-492]
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE SABBATH IN AMERICA,	[493-512]

HISTORY OF THE SABBATH.

PART I—BIBLE HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.
THE CREATION.

Time and eternity—The Creator and his work—Events of the first day of time—Of the second—Of the third—Of the fourth—Of the fifth—Of the sixth.

Time, as distinguished from eternity, may be defined as that part of duration which is measured by the Bible. From the earliest date in the book of Genesis to the resurrection of the unjust at the end of the millennium, the period of about 7000 years is measured off.[1] Before the commencement of this great week of time, duration without beginning fills the past; and at the expiration of this period, unending duration opens before the people of God. Eternity is that word which embraces duration without beginning and without end. And that Being whose existence comprehends eternity, is he who only hath immortality, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God.[2]