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    ELDER GRANT’S SIXTH SPEECH

    My friend says it was the “ceremonia” law that was added because of transgression. The Bible does not say one word about a ceremonial law.DSQ63 32.1

    Ephesians 2 has been quoted to show what law was abolished. He says this cannot refer to the ten commands because there is no “enmity” in that law. If that fourth precept is now binding, every man must put out his fires and suffer. This would be enmity enough, surely.DSQ63 32.2

    He quotes Colossians 2:16, for his ceremonial Sabbaths, but we find Paul also speaks of “holy days.” Was not the weekly Sabbath a holy day? No scholar will deny that Colossians 2:16, includes the seventh day Sabbath.DSQ63 32.3

    We are referred to Matthew 24:20, for proof that Christ taught the obligation of the Sabbath in the year a. d. 70. It was the custom of the Jews to keep their gates shut on the Sabbath. Christ knew they would be keeping it, and they keep it yet.DSQ63 32.4

    I will proceed to give some evidence for the observance of the first day, Barnabas says, “We observe the eighth day with gladness, in which Jesus arose from the dead, and having manifested himself to his disciples, ascended into heaven.” Ignatius says, “Wherefore, if they who were brought up in these ancient laws came nevertheless to the newness of hope no longer observing Sabbaths, but keeping the Lord’s day,” etc.DSQ63 32.5

    It has not yet been shown where Christ commands us to keep the Sabbath. If Christ commands it, I will keep it, if I have to freeze in the act.DSQ63 32.6

    The commandments of Christ in the New Testament are called God’s commandments. 1 John 3:22, 23. “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. And this to his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.” Acts 17:30. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.”DSQ63 32.7

    The expression, “commandments of God,” don’t always mean the ten commandments. James 2:8, “The Royal law,” don’t apply to the ten commands, but to “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”DSQ63 33.1

    I repeat, there is no lore to God or neighbor in the ten commandments. A man may keep all of them and yet not he saved.DSQ63 33.2

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