SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
ONE of the arguments against the Sabbath of Jehovah is that it is not commanded in the New Testament. But what has that to do with it. Neither is it there abrogated. A law is in force till it is repealed in the same public manner as it was enacted. There is no prohibition of image-worship in the New Testament; and where is the third commandment enjoined? That argument which would prove that the Sabbath was abrogated would prove that every one of the Ten Commandments are no longer binding. THE New Testament is not a book of laws. Jesus gave many injunctions, but they were the mere developing of principles found in the Decalogue, the magnifying of the law, a work which the prophet declared Christ would do. Isa. 42 : 21. The New Testament everywhere indorses the Decalogue, everywhere appeals to it as authority, honors it, and shows its far-reaching breadth and depth. The New Testament is but a record of the unfolding of the Gospel of God. It shows the verity of the reality to which prophecy, type, and symbol pointed. It marks the cessation of all ceremonies which pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice, resurrection, and priesthood, showing that they have all been met in the Lamb of God, the Light and Life of the world, our great High Priest. It also marks the beginning of those rites and ceremonies which point backward to the death of our Lord and forward to His coming. The change in passing from the Old Testament to the New is the mere change of rites and ceremonies which mark the progress of God's plan in the Gospel of Christ.