Some Thoughts on the Most Christian Use of the Sunday: A Sermon Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, Jan. 30th

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B. H. Greene, 1848 - 51 pages

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Page 4 - Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless ? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But, if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Page 3 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 3 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever...
Page 17 - let no man judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath.
Page 4 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Page 4 - Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Page 3 - Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 4 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Page 3 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore ; for it is holy unto you : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Page 4 - And the Lord said unto Moses, "The man shall be surely put to death : all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp." And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died ; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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