Now whilst the apostles,
and first Christians under the inspired guidance, for a season also
attended worship on the Jewish Sabbath, they observed the day of the
Lord's resurrection, the first day of the week, as their day of special
religious convocations; and this _inspired example_ is obligatory on
Christians in all ages. Still the essence of the institution consists,
not in the particular day of the week, though that is now fixed, but in
the religious observance of one entire day in seven." [Note 8]
We do not, indeed, maintain that the conduct of the apostles was
inspired on all occasions; but it seems just and necessary to maintain,
that when engaged in the specific and appropriate duties of that
office, for which they were inspired, they were as much under the
guidance of the Spirit in their _actions_, as their words.
On the divine institution and obligation of the Christian Sabbath, we
refer the reader to an extended argument in its favor, in the author's
Lutheran Manual, pp. 310-24.
Note 1. Luther's Works, Leipsic edit., Vol. iii., pp. 642, 643.
Note 2. Luther's Works, Vol. iii., p. 643.
Note 3. Symbolical Books, pp. 449, 450, corrected by the original.
Note 4. Niemeyer's Briefe Melanchthons, [sic] p. 50.
Note 5. Vol. iv., p. 113, of Koethe's edit.
Note 6. See Schmucker's Lutheran Manual, pp. 306, 307.
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