Subject: Whats the major reson for sunday worship |
Bible Note: Methodist: "It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism, nor is there any against it, as there should have been if Christ intended to abridge the rights of Jewish parents under the Abrahamic covenant. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week or for family devotion, or for women to receive the Lord’s Supper. The reasons are obvious; there was no controversy in either case that called for it." Theological Compend., Rev. Amos Binney, pp. 180,181. New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1902. Christian: "I do not believe that the Lord's day came in the room of the Jewish Sabbath, or that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh to the first day, for this plain reason, that where there is no testimony, there can be no faith. Now there is no testimony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath was changed, or that the Lord’s day came in the room of it...There is no divine testimony that the Sabbath was changed, or that the Lord's day came in the room of it; therefore there can be no divine faith that the Sabbath was changed or that the Lord's day came in the room of it." Alexander Campbell (Candidus), in Washington (Pa.) Reporter, Oct. 8, 1821. Congregationalist: "It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devoutly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath... The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday... There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." The Ten Commandments, R.W. Dale, D.D. (Congregationalist), pp. 106, 107. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Presbyterian: "The moral law doth ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof, and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator who gave it. Neither doth Christ in the gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen, this obligation." From the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Church of England: "There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday... The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands on exactly the same footing as the observance of Sunday... Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters." The Ten Commandments, Canon Eyton (Church of England). London: Trubner. |