Sunday Law Quotes:
Roman
Catholic
" We
observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council
of Laodicea [A.D. 364] transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
~ The
Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, (12th Edition)
"You
may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single
line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The scriptures enforce the
religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
~Roman
Catholic Cardinal Gibbons
Faith
of our Fathers (pg.111)
"Let
all the judges and townspeople, and the occupation of all trades rest on the
venerable Day of the Sun!"
~Constantine's'
Edict of March, 07, 321 A.D., Corpus Juris Civilis Cod. (Lib. 3), (tit. 12),
(Lex. 3), (Appn. 9)
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Emperor Constantine on Roman Coin |
Baptist
"There was and is
a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not
Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the
Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week. Where can
the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament...
absolutely not!"
"To me, it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' intercourse
with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question, never
alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His
resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.”
"Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early
Christian history... but what a pity. It comes branded with the mark of
paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god; adopted and sanctioned by the papal
apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!"
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox
A paper read before a New York ministers' conference, Nov. 13, 1893
Reported in New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893
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The New Directory For Baptist Churches
Author: Dr. Edward T. Hiscox Originally Published: 1859 |
Anglican
"Where
are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all?"
"We
are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the
first day."
"The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the
seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because
of the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."
Isaac Williams
Plain Sermons
on the Catechism
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Reverend Isaac Williams (1802 - 1865) |
Protestant
"There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about
abstaining from work on Sunday; into the rest of Sunday no divine law
enters."
"The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the same
footing as the observance of Sunday."
Canon
Eyton
The Ten
Commandments
Congregationalist
"It is quite clear that however rigidly
or devotedly 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.
R. W. Dale
The Ten Commandments
The Church of England
"Many
people think that Sunday is the Sabbath; but neither in the New Testament, nor
in the early Church is there anything to suggest that we have any right to
transfer the observance of the seventh day of the week to the first. The
Sabbath was, and is, Saturday and not Sunday; and if it were binding on us
then, we should observe it on that day and on no other."
Reverend
Lionel Beere
All-Saints
Church, Ponsonby, New Zealand
Church and People, Sept. 1, 1947
"Nowhere in the Bible is
it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy! That is Saturday.”
P. Carrington
Archbishop of Quebec, Oct. 27, 1949
Cited in Prophetic Signs, p 12.
Moody Bible Institute
"The Sabbath was binding in
Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with
the word 'remember', showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote
the law on the tables of stone at Sinai."
"How can men claim
that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the
other nine are still binding?"
D. L. Moody
Weighed and Wanting, pg. 47.
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