History of the Institution of the Sabbath Day: Its Uses and Abuses; with Notices of the Puritans, Quakers, Etc

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T. B. Pugh, Bookseller and Stationer, no. 615 Chestnut Street, 1859 - 248 pages
 

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Page 79 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 185 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 47 - And He said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad...
Page 25 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 56 - And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Page 28 - Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep : for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations ; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
Page 24 - Thou earnest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant...
Page 31 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Page 44 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Je-siis and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 21 - 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.

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