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History of the Sabbath and first day of the week

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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Abyssinians, pp. 424-427

Adam, his influence upon the patriarchs, 3, 31, 32

Adam must have heard the Creator when he set apart the seventh day, 16-19

“After eight days,” John 20, 147-149

Anabaptists, 422, 423

Analysis of Exodus 16, 39-44

Annual sabbaths enumerated, 84, 85

Apostasies, the two great patriarchal, 33-35

Apostasy in the early church, 193-203

Apostasy, progress of, 324, 329-331, 361, 362

Ark in the heavenly temple contains the law, 161-163

Armenians of the East Indies, 427-432

Article, the, in Mark 2:27, 22, 121, 122

Atonement, day of, no mention of its observance, 30, 86

Atonement, the, relates to the decalogue, 62-64

Atonement, the, relates to the fourth commandment, 62-64

Bampfield, Francis, sufferings of, 487, 488

Barnabas, epistle of, 231-235

Barnabas thought the Sabbath too pure for this wicked world, 299-301

Bohemian Sabbath-keepers, 463, 464

Bound, Dr., theory of, concerning the Sabbath, 472-475

Calvin caused Servetus to be arrested on Sunday, 440, 441

Calvin’s doctrine and practice concerning Sunday, 436-443

Calvin’s interpretation of first-day texts, 438-440

Calvin’s view of the one-day-in-seven theory, 437

Carlstadt’s faults, extent of, 448, 449, 453, 454

Carlstadt a Sabbatarian, 456, 457

Cathari, 415-417

Causes which made the Sunday usurpation a success, 329-331

Change of the Sabbath not taught in Ps. 118, 155-157

Change of the Sabbath not recorded lest it make the Bible too large, 190

Change of the Sabbath unheard of in the first centuries, 204-206, 283-293

Christian Sabbath, Origen thus calls the seventh day, 323, 324

Christ’s teaching with respect to the Sabbath, 115-138

Christ in the field of corn, 118-124

Christ’s work on the Sabbath like that of the Father, 126, 127

Chrysostom and Jerome on Sunday labor, 363, 364

Clement’s numbering of the days explained out of Philo, 318-327

Clement on the Lord’s day, 219-222

Climate of Palestine, 69

Col. 2:14-17, exposition of, 138-141

Columba probably a Sabbath-keeper, 401-403

Constantine’s Sunday law, 343-349, 353

Contrast between the origin of the Sabbath and Sunday, 332, 333, 352, 353

Councils of the church, character of, 362, 363

Covenant not made with their fathers, 75

Creation, six days of, 9-13

Creation, nature of, 9, 10

Culdees of Great Britain, 400-403

Danish and Norwegian Sabbath-keepers, 505, 509

Dark Ages defined, 398, 399

Days, names of, 16

Days, how many, different ones, 16

Decalogue, a complete moral code, 61, 62

Decalogue, perpetuity of in the fathers, 309-312

Deluge, why sent, 33-35

Destruction of Jerusalem caused by Sabbath-breaking, 103-108

Dionysius on the Lord’s day, 214, 215

Dominicum defined, 246-248, 255-257

Dominicum servasti?, 244-258

Dutch Sabbath-keepers, 467, 468

English Sabbath-keepers, 467, 469, 470, 479-492, 500

Entrance of Sunday into the early church, 261-266

Error not changed into truth by age, 195, 196

Eternity, 9

Eusebius author of the doctrine that Christ changed the Sabbath, 355-359

“Every day” may include simply the six working days, 185

Every man fully persuaded in his own mind, 183-186

Famous falsehood examined, 243-258

Fathers, authority of, 199-201

Festivals of the church enumerated, 433, 434

Festivals of the Hebrews enumerated, 82, 83

Fires on the Sabbath forbidden, nature of the statute, 67-71

Firmament defined, 11

First-day history and papal history compared, 213, 282, 283

First-day observance in the exact words of the fathers, 283-289

First mention of the Sabbath after Moses, 99

Flight of disciples not to be on the Sabbath day, 132-138

Fourth commandment expounded, 46-50

Fourth commandment in the New Testament, 141, 142

Fraud in the Bible Dict. of the Tract Society, 211, 212

Frauds in Justin Edwards, 212, 213, 216, 217, 244, 245

Fraudulent testimonials to the Sunday Lord’s day, 211-219

French Sabbath-keepers, 468

Frith, the martyr, judgment on the Sabbath, 459, 460

Genesis, bearing of upon the Sabbath, 28-30

Gentiles admitted into the commonwealth of Israel, 159, 160

Gentiles blessed for observing the Sabbath, 101, 102

German Sabbath-keepers, 467, 499, 500, 509

Gilfillan’s inexcusable fraud, 250-258

Globe, our, the Sabbath on, 48

Gregory VII., A. D. 1074, condemns Sabbath-keepers, 420

Hallowed identical with sanctified, 17

Hebrews, how God favored them, 44, 45

Hebrews, why made the depositaries of the truth, 33-37, 46, 55, 56

Honors pertaining to the Sabbath law, 61

Hungarian Sabbath-keepers, 500

Hypsistarii, 339, 340

Ignatius never uses the term Lord’s day, 211

Ignatius, epistles of, 237-242

Illustration of the alleged sanctification of the seventh day in the wilderness, 24

Irenæus mentions no Lord’s day, 216-218, 271-274

Irenæus falsely quoted, 271-274

Jericho, Sabbath not violated at taking of, 95, 96

Jews, eminent, on the origin of the Sabbath, 26, 27

Jubilee, no record of its observance in the Bible, 30, 86

Justin Edwards’ Sunday Sabbath, B. C. 63, 112

Justin Martyr on Sunday, 267-270

Justin Martyr a no-Sabbath man, 270, 271

Justin Martyr mentions no Lord’s day, 212

Knox and the Scotch of the sixteenth century, 443-445

Laodicea, Council of, curses Sabbath-keepers, 360, 361

Laying by in store on first-day, 175-178

Lord’s day of John, 187, 192

Lord’s day first applied to Sunday, 222-224

Lord’s Supper the ground of controversy between Luther and Carlstadt, 451-453

Luther and Carlstadt, 446-459

Luther might have profited greatly by Carlstadt, 457-459

Luther on Gen. 2:3, 17

Man, meaning of, in Mark 2:27, 22, 121, 122

Manna, falling of, not the occasion of the Sabbath, 38, 39

Martyrdom of John James, 489-491

Melito of Sardis, 215, 216

Miracles and judgments in support of Sunday, 374, 378, 379, 392, 393

Miracles pertaining to the Sabbath in the wilderness, 40

Modern historians on Sabbath in the early church, 333-338, 341

Moral obligation of the Sabbath, 50

Morrow defined, 181

Moses rehearses the law, 74-79

Moses in the Mount, 51-61

Mosheim and Neander, 229, 230, 242, 243

Mount Sinai at the giving of the law, 44-46

Mystical Lord’s day, 219-222, 224, 226

Nazarenes, 338, 339

Nehemiah’s Sabbath reform, 106-109

New Covenant has a temple and an ark, 160

Offerings for the dead as ancient as the Sunday-Lord’s day, 223, 224

Olive tree, the good, 165, 166

Omissions, remarkable, 30

Oracles of God preserved by the Hebrews, 158, 159

Origen on Lord’s day, 225, 226, 291

Other readings of Gen. 2:2, 14

Palæologus, 462, 463

Papal usurpation began with reference to Sunday, 274, 275

Patriarchal age, its great light, 31-34

Passaginians, 415-418

Passover festival defined, 83

Penalty of the law, 58

Pentecost, day of, Acts 2:1, 149-151

Petrobrusians, 418-420

Pentecost defined, 83

Perpetual statute for their generations, a parallel precept, 58

Perpetuity and observance of the Sabbath in the fathers, 315-329

Pliny, epistle of, 211, 235-237

Pope Innocent III. responsible for the roll from heaven, 388-391

Precepts given to Israel classified, 51

Presbyterians and Episcopalians contend over Sunday, 471-477

Presbyterians get Sunday into the fourth commandment, 472-476

Priceless value of the Sabbath, 509, 510

Prophets taught the people on the Sabbath, 100

Protestant Sunday-keeping as viewed by a learned Catholic theologian, 477, 478

Reasons for Sunday stated in the words of the fathers, 289-294

Reasons out of the fathers for rejecting the Sabbath, 299-309

Records of ancient Sabbath-keepers destroyed, 399

Redemption no argument for change of Sabbath, 151-155

Reformation differently viewed by Luther and Carlstadt, 451

Reformers all brought something from Rome, 478

Reformers, just view of, 445, 446

Rest of the Creator, reason for it, 14, 15

Restoration of Israel, if they keep the Sabbath, 102

Resurrection of Christ did not affect the Sabbath, 142-147

Roll from heaven in behalf of Sunday, 385-389

Roman church turns the Sabbath into a fast, 280, 281

Romanists have corrupted the fathers, 200, 201

Rule of faith of the man of God, 202

Rule of faith of the Romanist, 202

Russian Sabbath-keepers, 464-467

Sabbatarian principles, 480, 483, 487, 489

Sabbatarians, ancient bodies of, 338-340, 354

Sabbatati or Insabbatati defined, 407-411

Sabbath a sign, 43, 44, 53-58

“Sabbath between,” 168

Sabbath-breaking in the wilderness, effect of, 65-67

Sabbath at creation in the early fathers, 312-315

Sabbath defined, 20

Sabbath during Dark Ages, 398-432

Sabbath during the forty years, 64-74

Sabbath given, meaning of the term, 42, 43

Sabbath-keepers in Constantinople, A. D. 1054, 420-422

Sabbath-keepers in Rome, A. D. 600, 374, 375, 400

Sabbath in ancient writers means Saturday, 370, 371

Sabbath in the book of Acts, 167-182

Sabbath in the fourth century, 359-362

Sabbath in the fifth century, 367, 368

Sabbath in the prophetic Scriptures, 100-106

Sabbath in the time of Maccabees, 110-112

Sabbath made known, meaning of the term, 49

Sabbath may be kept over the earth, 102

Sabbath more ancient than circumcision, 128

Sabbath not a memorial of deliverance from Egypt, 76-79

Sabbath not a shadow of redemption, 27, 28

Sabbath not a Jewish feast, 71, 72

Sabbath not mentioned from Adam to Moses, 92-95

Sabbath not mentioned from Moses to David, 92-95

Sabbath, the acts by which it was made, 14-16

Sabbaths, weekly and annual, their difference, 86-92

Sabbath, when made, 15, 16, 20-25, 46, 47

Sabbath, why instituted, 25, 26, 509, 510

Sabbath in the new earth, 510-512

Sanctified, the word defined, 15, 17-19

Sanctification of the seventh day was at the beginning, 23-25

Second tables of stone, who wrote them, 60, 61

Self-contradiction of Justin Edwards, 177, 178

Seventh day, event on the first of time, 13, 14

Seventh day of the commandment is the seventh day of the week, 48, 49

Seventh-day Baptists of America, 493-499

Seven, signification of the number, 14, 15

Seventh-day Adventists of America, 500-509

Seventh-day Adventists of Switzerland, 509

Shew-bread eaten by David, 97, 98

Siberian Sabbath-keepers, 500

Slander of heretics no sin, 418

Sticks, the case of picking them up on the Sabbath, 72-74

Sun and moon stand still, 96, 97

Sunday a day of relief to souls in purgatory and in hell, 383, 384

Sunday an ancient heathen festival, 258-264, 277, 278, 279, 341, 342, 345-349

Sunday arguments of the Dark Ages, what became of them, 470

Sunday as the sister of the Sabbath, 361, 362

Sunday authoritatively established as Lord’s day, 349-351

Sunday at the Council of Nice, 275, 276

Sunday during the Dark Ages, 362-398

Sunday edicts of kings, emperors, popes and councils, 342-346, 349, 353, 359-361, 366, 372-398

Sunday festival, origin and growth of, 223, 224, 352, 353

Sunday festival defined by the reformers, 434-436

Sunday, first witnesses for, 228-243

Sunday, how mentioned prior to A. D. 194, 218, 219

Sunday labor in the early church not sinful, 283-289, 296, 299, 316-322, 343-345

Sunday labor in the fourth and fifth centuries, 363-366

Sunday Lord’s day not traceable to the apostles, 204-228

Sunday on a level with other festivals in the early church, 264-266, 295, 296

Sunday sustained only by the Romanists’ rule, 202, 203, 223, 224, 294, 477, 478

Sunday, when first called Sabbath, 370, 371

Superstition of the Jews concerning the Sabbath, 113, 114

Tabernacles, feast of, defined, 83, 84

Ten commandments alone on the tables of stone, 79-81

Tertullian’s excuses for Sunday observance, 277, 278

Tertullian on Lord’s day, 222-224

Tertullian’s self-contradiction, 276, 277, 305-307

Theophilus mentions no Lord’s day, 212, 213

Time defined, 9

Time, great week of, 9

Tradition characterized, and exemplified, 198, 201, 227, 228

Tradition for the passover more apostolic than for Sunday, 227, 228

Transylvanian Sabbath-keepers, 460-463

Trask, Mrs., sufferings of, 481-483

Troas, Paul at, 178-182

True God distinguished from false gods, 25, 26

Typical observances no part of the Sabbath law, 98, 99

Time to commence the Sabbath, 107, 108

Unfairness of anti-Sabbatarians, 131, 132

Waldenses, 403-415

Weeks, how and when made, 16, 30, 31

Wilderness of sin, record of, how connecting Gen. 2:1-3, and Ex. 20:8-11, 46, 47

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