OBJECTIONS

1. THE definite day - the seventh - is of the nature of a positive institute, capable of change, while the observance of a day of rest, and worship and commemoration, is moral and eternal.ROSS 1.1

2. The object to be obtained, of rest etc., can be as well carried out by the first day, now observed, as by the seventh; being after six days of labor, and no difference but in the number and name. It is more convenient and can only be changed for Saturday with great difficulty.ROSS 1.2

3. The first day observance by Christ and the apostles, and John’s calling it the Lord’s day, gave it sacredness, and caused its observance among the primitive Christians, from the first century, and first writers that we have after the apostles. D. I. R.ROSS 1.3