The sabbath question Author:James Macgregor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Dr Macleod's Position. is the purpose of this first book to trace the Sabbath question back through the Christian centuries to the... more » apostolic age. This historical review will remove certain prejudices against the truth, and at the same time serve as a discipline for the contemplation of the question on its merits. And, beginning with the instant in which I write, I will endeavour to define the position assumed by the Rev. Dr Macleod of Glasgow. At a meeting of his Presbytery in Novemberlast, the reverend Doctor delivered a speech, in which he was understood to deny and assail the doctrine of the perpetual obligation of the Decalogue in general, and of the Fourth Commandment in particular. But he afterwards complained of having been misunderstood ; and in order to explain his real meaning, delivered a second speech in the Presbytery and a sermon in the Barony Church. After reading his two speeches and sermon as reported in the newspapers, I wrote to the Daily Review to the following effect:— His avowed purpose from the first was to get rid of the Fourth Commandment, even as authoritatively prescribing the form ofLtrd's- day observance. For this purpose, he laboured to show that the Fourth Commandment is not obligatory on Christians. And in order to show this more effectually, he affirmed, and laboured to prove that the Decalogue as a whole is dead with Christ and buried in His grave. This is the sum and substance of his original speech, the only thing he possibly could say, the only thing heactually did say, to his purpose. This in substance he has repeated again and again when he speaks to the purpose, in his explanatory speech in the Presbytery and sermon in the Barony Church. And what he vaguely says about a liberty that is lawless, a spirit w...« less