Platform, p. 25.
On the subject of this rite, we regret to state, that a more careful
study of the subject, as presented in the above results, will not
permit us to speak as favorably of the practice of the Reformers, as we
did in some of our former publications, twenty years ago, and even
later. The positions above maintained, we think, cannot be successfully
controverted, as our investigations of the original sources has been
sufficiently extensive to dispel all doubt.
Note 1. See Koecher, p. 515.
Note 2. Funk's Kirchenordnungen, pp. 189, 190.
Note 3. Mueller's Symb. B., p. 364.
Note 4. Page 97.
Note 5. Mueller's Symb. B., p. 185.
Note 6. Pleiffer, p. 534. [sic]
Note 7. Vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 125.
Note 8. Vol. i., pp. 199, 206.
Note 9. Vol. iv., p. 781.
Note 10. Lutheran Manual, p. 293.
CHAPTER VII.
DENIAL OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTION AND OBLIGATION OF CHRISTIAN SABBATH.
The incalculable importance of the proper observation of the Christian
Sabbath to the progress of the kingdom of Christ in general, and to
the growth of piety in the heart of every Christian in particular, is
a point on which, we are happy to state, there is no difference between
the Plea and the Platform. Yet we cannot resist the conviction, that in
our efforts to observe this day, not with the pharisaic formalities of
the Jew, but with the conscientious spirituality of the Christian, the
question whether in doing so, we are obeying an injunction of God,
exhibited in the inspired example of his apostles, or are merely
conforming to an uninspired regulation of the church, must be of great
importance.
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