ELDER GRANT’S TWELFTH SPEECH

I have not intimated that Christ commands us to keep the first day. I have shown that the Sabbath was abolished with the feast days.DSQ63 60.1

My friend refers to the women resting, “according to the commandment.” But this took place before the resurrection, and of course is no proof for us.DSQ63 60.2

He has quoted Matthew 5:17: Christ did not come to destroy the law, etc. I believe that I have not denied it. But there was something abolished. If we are dead to the law, and the law is dead, as we have seen in Romans 7, then of course the Sabbath is dead also.DSQ63 60.3

I have shown that the Sabbath in positive, and hence not binding now-that the Sabbath penalty was stoning, and if that is done away the Sabbath must go with it.DSQ63 60.4

The claim that the law of ten commands, as a whole, is brought into the New Testament, has not been sustained.DSQ63 60.5

We have given good historical testimony that no Sabbath was binding on the patriarchs. We brought several testimonies and nothing was brought to rebut them.DSQ63 60.6

We are willing to submit the question right here. We think the negative of this question has been well sustained. We shall part as friends. I will join with my friend in the hope that good will result from this investigation.DSQ63 60.7