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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our faith in this matter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Till heaven and earth pass, we believe, according to the declaration of the Saviour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For this deviation from the course prescribed, God pronounced him a transgressor, and visited him in judgment, declaring that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So when God instituted a weekly Sabbath, and specified the seventh day for that purpose, assigning a special a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or that they should" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "nor" }, { "from": "human", "value": "These precepts are in close connection with that requiring the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, and _stand or fall with it_. The truth of the case is, that the l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--and that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In view of such passages, although it be admitted that occasional mistakes and sins, being repented of, do not absolutely divest men of the Christian character and hopes, it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We entreat you, therefore, for the glory of God, the honor of his law and government, the unity and perfection of the church, your own spiritual attainments and acceptance with God, the conversion and salvation of sinners, the triumph of truth over infidelity, the redemption of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. We approach you in the belief that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--and that we" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We feel bou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or whether it is to be classed among the ceremonial institutions, which were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the latter position can be established, it can be of no use whatever to perpetuate the Institution under the New Dispensation. It can neither be promotive o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The natural inference is, that the institution existed from the time the reason of it did. Human legislators, it is true, may not enact a law, until long after a good reason exists for doing so; because they may be blind to the existence of such a reason, and slow to discover it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it --is no more qualified, than that which speaks of his resting. With reference to this, his language is explicit,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. In face o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Again, after six chapters more concerning the tabernacle and its various sacrifices, the whole communication of the forty days' abode on the mount is concluded with a re-inculcation of the Sabbath-rest, in a manner the most solemn and affecting. 'And the Lord spake unto Moses sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to which nothing is opposed but that which is carnal. Hitherto, we have rested none of our proofs upon the fact, that it was incorporated in the Decalogue; that it is one of the TEN WORDS" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that the fact of their having been graven upon stone, and given under circumstances of greater pomp and glory than the other precepts of the Old Testament, constitutes no solid argument for their being so called. The greater glory of their promulgation from the Mount of God, is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We not only admit, but strongly insist, that moral duties are inculcated elsewhere besides in the Decalogue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When the Jews are told, Exod. xxii. 22, _Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child_, we need no scholastic definitions...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What good thing shall I do that I may inherit eternal life, he was told to keep the commandments. That by these were meant the precepts of the Decalogue, is evident from the Savior's immediately beginning to quote those precepts. Matt. xix. 16-19. The fact that they were enjoine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, the Sabbath is alluded to as much as any other precept. That when the Apostle teaches, the law is not made void through faith, Rom. iii. 31, he means, among other things, that the Sabbath is not made void by the gospel, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Psalm lxxxiv. 10, would perhaps be there. But the mass--the throng--the great multitude--would be elsewhere. They would be immersed in the service of the world, their souls perishing for lack of knowledge. It would be impossible, utterly impossible to bring the word of God to be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Therefore he needs all the aid the Sabbath can bring to his soul. He needs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "surely it is of the highest importance to do so on this solemn occasion, when the Great King comes down to test our loyalty. Let it be remembered, too, that in this business there can properly be no uninterested spectators. It is not for a few to go through with the solemn act o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isa. lviii. 13. Can that man be called a Christian, who counts it an irksome season? Is he spiritually minded to whom it is an unwelcome interruption of his worldly business, who in the avariciousness of his heart says" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amos. viii. 5. Su...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not finding thine own pleasure." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Matt. xii. 5. Yet traveling one half the distance for pleasure, is a profanation of the day, inasmuch as the word of God says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the same reason, and because there are six days in which men ought to work, journeying for business on th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Decalogue, as to the form of it, and as delivered through the hand and ministry of Moses, only concerned that people (Israel), and was calculated for their use; though, as to the matter of it, and so far as it is of a moral nature, and agrees with the law and light of nature...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The reason of positive institutions in general, is very obvious; though we should not see the reason why such particular ones are pitched upon, gather than others. Whoever, therefore, instead of caviling at words, will attend to the thing itself, may clearly see, that positive i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The distinction between _moral_ and _positive commands_, has been less clearly made by moral writers than most other distinctions. He says the law of the Sabbath is entirely of a moral nature, as to the whole end to which it aims, so far as man is concerned; that" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away, how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and, having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace. Here the middl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin which were by the law, di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If any commandment of this law is binding, the fourth is binding of course, even if it should be called the least. It is also recognized in the following declaration of Christ, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark 2:23-28. But there is evidently nothing in this narrative, or in this declaration, to justify such an inference. It must be admitted on all hands, that the fourth commandment was obligatory, as originally given, till the death of Christ, if no further; and therefore Christ,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which is more than is said in reference to the day of his resurrection. If a day were to be selected as a weekly Sabbath, which was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Surely the phrase," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. This passage, like the others, does not imply that the first day was then commonly and generally regarded as a day for public worship. Ind...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. But this, like all the previous quotations, wants solidity. The main p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to the first day of the week. The only passage referred to for the purpose of sustaining it, is Revelation 1:10." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. But that the day here called the Lord's day, is the first day of the week, is merely...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we cannot find in the Scriptures plain and ample proof of the abrogation of the original day, or the substitution of a new one, the seventh day undoubtedly remains in full force and obligation, and is now to be celebrated by all the race of Adam. Here, then, the laboring oar ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "warrant them in observing the first day of the week, to the neglect of the seventh. For the benefit of such, we now come to consider the history of the Sabbath since the establishment of the Christian Church. By consenting to do this, it is not meant to admit, that if a regard f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill; for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. He here declared the precepts of this la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They came to Antioch, in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. After Paul had preached Christ as the true Messiah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city toge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For ye, brethren, became followers (imitators) of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "occurs, they make nothing for the sanctification of the day, since there is no hint of any such thing. The meetings there spoken of were for special purposes, and nothing was done at either which might not with perfect propriety have been done on any day. It is not quite certain...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. These circumstances, added to the enmity which formerly existed between the Gentiles and the Jews, produced a prejudice which had its influence in the church in bringing into disrepute, and in fixing a stigma upon, whateve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Therefore the Christians also, who believed Christ would restore all things to their primitive practice, as Tertullian teacheth in _Monogamia_, kept holy the Sabbath, and had their assemblies on that day, in which the law was read to them, as appears in Acts 15:21, which custom ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We keep the eighth day with gladness, in which Jesus rose from the dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In this passage, Ignatius was speaking of altogether a different thing from Sabbath-keeping. There is another quotation from him, however, in which he brings out m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This day we celebrated the holy Dominical day, in which we have read your epistle. As given by _Eusebius_, it is thus:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-day we have _passed the Lord's holy day_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In _St. Jerome's_ time, (that is, in the fifth century,) Christianity had got into the throne as well as into the empire. Yet for all this, the entire sanctification of the Lord's day proceeded slowly; and that it was the work of time to bring it to perfection, appears from the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He built places of public worship; he encouraged the meeting of synods and bishops; honored them with his presence, and employed himself continually in aggrandizing the church. He was scrupulously attentive to the religious rites and ceremonies which were prescribed to him by th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He appointed as a suitable time for prayers the Dominical day, which then was an especial day, and now is undoubtedly the very first. His body guard observed the day, and offered on it prayers written by the Emperor. The happy prince endeavored to persuade all to do this, and by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not proper for Christians to Judaize, and to cease from labor on the Sabbath, but they ought to work on that day, and put especial honor upon the Lord's day, as Christians. If any be found Judaizing, let him be anathematized." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ther...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can you look upon the Lord's day, if you neglect the Sabbath? Do you not know that they are sisters, and that in despising the one you affront the other?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She, with all her virgins and widows who lived at Bethlehem in a cloister with her, upon the Lord's day, repaired duly to the church, or house of God, which was nigh to her cell; and after her return from thence to her own lodgings, she herself and all her company _fell to work_...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pope _Innocent I._ constituted a fast on the Sabbath day, which seems to be the first constitution of that fast; but dedicating the Sabbath to the Virgin Mary was by _Urban II._, in the latter part of the eleventh century. About this time we find _Esychius_ teaching the doctrine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I, the Lord, who commanded you that ye should observe the Dominical day, and ye have not kept it, and ye have not repented of your sins, as I said by my gospel, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away; I have caused repentance unto life to be preached u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A synod was held in Oxford, A. D. 1223, by _Stephen_, Archbishop of Canterbury, where they determined that the Dominical day be kept with all veneration, and a fast upon the Sabbath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Parliament then passed an act, by which Sunday and ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall think to change TIMES and LAWS; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Abyssinian Christians, another numerous body, are represented as being similar in some respects to the Papists; and _Purchase_ speaks of them as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and as observing the Saturday Sabbath. They are also mentioned by _Brerewood_. _Mosheim...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Jews were commanded in the Old Testament to keep the Sabbath-day, and they observed it every seventh day, called the Sabbath, or Saturday; but we Christian men are not bound to such commandments in Moses' law, and therefore we now keep no more the Sabbath, or Saturday, as th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fourth commandment is simply and perpetually moral, and not ceremonial in whole or in part. _Richard Byfield_, 1630, says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fourth commandment is part of the law of nature, and thus part of the image of God, and is no more capabl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These opinions were vindicated by Brabourne in two volumes which appeared, one in 1628, and the other in 1632. They have never been answered to the satisfaction of many candid mind. It is true, an answer has been attempted. But this answer, laboring as it did mainly to prove tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "wherefore, it pleased his majesty to set out his declaration," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Picture of all Religions," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They arose in England in the sixteenth century;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, with the explanation of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, and united they shall stand. Let this be done, and we need not fear. The Lord of the Sabbath is pledged for its sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As for the second proposition, wherein they assert the _morality and divine institution of the Lord's Day_, we shall here notice only three of their reasons. The first is, because Adam, according to God's command, kept the Sabbath in the state of innocency.... But what is the sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take ye heed; these are not small matters; consider well with yourselves what it is to stand guilty before God of belying Christ and his apostles, and wilfully wresting the Holy Scriptures. Be advised; take time while time is to repent of those notorious slanders wherewith you h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled; and because He always kept holy the Seventh Day, in this doubtless" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sabbath, in all the Holy Scriptures, but the Seventh Day alone; and because, when" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is mentioned in the New Testament, it is always clearly distinguished from" }, { "from": "human", "value": "First Day of the Week," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MY _holy day_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and thereby made holy time?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In IT thou shalt not do any work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "can we think to make amends for this act of disobedience by ceasing fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THOU, GOD, SEEST ME." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the thin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am told that I can purchase, in the State of Connecticut, _one hundred_ copper cents, bearing the impress and superscription of the United States Mint, and equal in every respect in value to the mint coin, for _sixty-five_ cents, payable in gold or silver. But I admit them to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in their" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of the old fathers, to find proof of it;--though we never called it in question;--then the issue is, whether this festival was _ordained_ by _Christ_?--whether the New Testament furnishes _inspired example_ of such festival? Ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gen. 2:3. The Rest day, then, which we are required to observe, is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which does not mean the rest which the Lord thy God has appointed, though it is true that he has appointed it; nor does it mean a rest which becomes the Lord's by reason...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The definite article cannot be rightly said to stand indefinitely." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by the inspiration of God, and are a perfect rule of faith and practice. I could say with the Psalmist," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My heart standeth in awe of thy word; for thou hast magnifie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call no man master," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call no man father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "OPPOSITION TO JUDAISM _introduced the particular festival of Sunday_ very early indeed into the place of the Sabbath.... The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance; and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The thing exists; and in the New Testament we find some things which appear to us so like it, that, we conclude this and they are identical; though we cannot find the particulars of the change. And besides, we find some occurrences mentioned in the New Testament which seemingly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, ... the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. I found, also, that Christ had said, (Mark 2:27, 28,)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Sabbath was made for man; therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the end of the Sabbath. Mark 16:1--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When the Sabbath was passed. Matthew--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As it began to dawn towards the first day of the week. Mark--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very ear...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the law to fail," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Address of the Seventh-day Baptists to the Baptists of the United States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All his commandments are sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No good thing will he withhold from ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, ... shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We look in vain to that instrument for authority to say whether first day, or seventh day, or whether any day, has been made holy by the Almighty. ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Constitution regards the conscience of the Jew as sacred as that of the Christian...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Section 17th provides," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and were accused of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By declaring themselves the protectors of the people, Marius and Cæsar had subverted the Constitution of their country. Augustus established a despotism by artfully affecting to be governed himself by the same laws which he procured to be enacted to take away the rights of the p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SABBATH" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherever, for a thousand years and upwards, we meet with _Sabbatum_, in any writer, of what name soever, it must be understood of no day but _Saturday_. Indeed, if we search all the books which have been written on this and kindred subjects up to the time of the Reformation, we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Without, therefore, any pretensions to an extended confutation of men's hypotheses and men's subterfuges on this subject, he desires merely to present a concise epitome of _what saith the Scriptures...