ELDER CORNELL’S ELEVENTH SPEECH

My friend calls for one instance where a penalty has been done away and the law still remain in force. He has furnished it himself. He admits the nine commands still in force without change. They had the stoning penalty. He calls on me to show one case, when he has furnished nine instances in his own argument.DSQ63 54.7

He quotes Romans 13:9, 10 for his new law.DSQ63 54.8

Paul refers to some of the commands which relate to our duty to neighbor and then adds “If there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Wakefield has it “Every other such commandment.” Neither of the first four commands relating to our duty to God are quoted there. If the text proves that the Sabbath is left out in the New Testament, because not quoted, it equally proves that the other three are left out. That which proves too much proves nothing in the case.DSQ63 55.1

My friend next resorts to Acts 15:28 and asks why the Sabbath was not enjoined if it was binding?DSQ63 55.2

I answer because their question did not relate to the moral law, but to matters in the ceremonial law. He says, the reason why the other commandments were not quoted was because they kept them. Good! Let me apply the same rule to the Sabbath. The Sabbath was not mentioned because there was no dispute in regard to it. They had never changed the day, all were agreed, and hence no need of taking it up in council. He quotes Grotius, that the three points mentioned were the only ones in dispute between Jews and Gentiles. Better still. Then the Gentile Christians must have been unanimous in keeping the seventh day. If they had not there would have been trouble enough. The Jews took occasion to find all the fault possible with the Christians.DSQ63 55.3

I am astonished that my friend should bring up that old objection to the Sabbath, that the world is round. Is it not just as round when his first day comes?DSQ63 55.4

He makes many assertions and says “It is a fact,” that this and the other is so, or is not so. Now I ask what all such assertions, without proof amount to, they are simply thrown in for effect, or to take up my time I deny every one of his assertions. Now let him prove them. Until then, we are even go far as they are concerned.DSQ63 55.5

I will now advance another direct proof that the Sabbath exists in this dispensation. Revelation 1:10 “I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day.” John undertakes to tell us on what day he had his vision. It was the “Lord’s day.” What day did John understand to be the Lord’s day? John wrote his gospel two years at least after the wrote Revelation, and there he simply calls the resurrection day. “The first day of the week.” John 20:19. If the first day had become the Sabbath or Lord’s day, John would have said so. But he still called the seventh day the Sabbath. We now inquire what day is the Lord’s day in the Bible. I challenge him to show where the first day is ever once called the Lord’s day.DSQ63 56.1

Mark 2:28 “Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.” His father was Lord of it, and he “also” was Lord of it. His being Lord of it signifies that it was his day. The man is Lord of his wife, signifies that she belongs to him. So with the Sabbath. The day that Christ is Lord of is “The Lord’s day.” No other day was ever called the Lord’s day in the Bible. The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord,” etc. And “If thou turn away the foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, etc.,” shows conclusively what day is the Lord’s.DSQ63 56.2