First—The Sabbath was instituted before the fall of man.
Second—Adam represented all his posterity in the covenant of works.
Third—The Sabbath law is perpetual, "binding all men in all ages."
Fourth—The seventh day was the only weekly Sabbath for at least four thousand years.
Lord, sanctify us by thy truth. May the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, whom thou sendest in the name of thy Son our Lord, abide in us and preside in this controversy. May he teach us all things, and bring all things to our remembrance. May all bitterness, and wrath, and malice, and evil-speaking, be far from us; and may we love one another with pure hearts fervently—for Christ's sake. Amen.
CHAPTER I.
First Reason.
PROPOSITION.
That the seventh day of the week is the only weekly sabbath of God's appointment.
My first reason for believing this proposition is, That the original Sabbath law, referred to in Genesis 2:2, 3, and embodied in Exodus 20:8-11, requires the sanctification of no other day.
Genesis 2:2, 3.—"And on the seventh day (on day the seventh) God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day (on day the seventh) from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day (the day the seventh,) and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."