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Congregational Quotes about
The Sabbath

The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive [early Christian] church called the Sabbath.

—Timothy Dwight, Theology, sermon 107, 1818 ed., Vol. IV, p. 49 Note: Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) was president of Yale University from 1795-1817.

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 obligation to observe 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.

—Dr. Dale, The Ten Commandments, pp. 106, 107.

It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day.

—Buck's Theological Dictionary page 403.

There is no command in the Bible requiring us to observe the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath.

—ORIN FOWLER, A.M., Mode and Subjects of Baptism.

The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament.

—DR. LYMAN ABBOTT, Christian Union, Jan. 18, 1882.

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Congregational Quotes about
The Sabbath