Excerpt from The Millennium, or Essays Theological and Didactic, on the Sabbath: On the Scriptural Passage "One Fold, and One Shepherd;" On the Seven Churches in Asia, &C We would not have known it was sin to break the commandments, if they had not been given, to give us knowledge of sin; for where there is no law there is no transgression, and as Paul said, Rom vii, 7, 1' I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust exceptthe law had said thou shalt not covet, I would not have known it was obligatory on me to keep the Sabbath if the law had not said thou shalt keep the seventh day holy. By that I know it is sin to break the Sabbath, for by the law is the knowledge of sin, Rom. Iii, 20. And _the penalty of sin under the new covenant is eternal death, for the soul that sinneth shall die, Ezek. Xviii, 4, 20, Jer. Xxxi, 80. To find that the American people and others keep the commandment accord ing to the decree of Constantine, a Roman emperor, whose reign com menced long after the apostolic day, and who seemed to be impressed with the belief, like many others at this time, - thatkeeping the Sabbath was commemorative of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now if that be true, we should keep the first day of the week as a festival and not the seventh and cook and feastinstead of rest, which suits the custom of many at the present time. We learn from St. Matthew xxviii, 1, Luke xxiv, 1, John xx, 1, that-christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week and St. Mark xvi, declares his resurrection on the first day of the week after the Sabbath had past and that his followers after his crucifixion returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandments, and went on the first day of the week and found that Christ was risen, Luke xxiii, 56, which shows that Christ's disciples were not impressed with that belief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.