Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…

Now comes tidings to the Eleven ⟨p. 134⟩that their women was early at the Sepulchre, where they had a Vision of Angels that told them their Lord was risen: Then comes another and says, The Lord is risen indeed. Two also comes from Emmaus, and cries, We have seen the Lord: and by and by, while they yet were speaking, their Lord shows himself in the midst of them.

Now comes tidings to the Eleven ⟨p. 134⟩that their women was early at the Sepulchre, where they had a Vision of Angels that told them their Lord was risen: Then comes another and says, The Lord is risen indeed. Two also comes from Emmaus, and cries, We have seen the Lord: and by and by, while they yet were speaking, their Lord shews himself in the midst of them.

Now he calls to their mind some of the eminent passages of his life, and eats and drinks in their presence, and opens the Scriptures to them: Yea, and opens their Understanding too, that their hearing might not be unprofitable to them; all which continued from early in the morning till late at night: Oh! what a Manna-day was this to the Church. And more than all this you will find, if you read but the four Evangelists upon this Subject.

Thus began the day after the Sabbath, and thus it has continued ⟨p. 135⟩thorough all Ages to this very day. Never did the Seventh-day-sabbath yield Manna to Christians. A new world was now begun with the poor Church of God; for so said the Lord of the Sabbath, Behold, I make all things new. A new Covenant, and why not then a new resting-day to the Church? or why must the old Sabbath be joined to this new Ministration? let him that can show a reason for it.