Carlow’s Defense of the Sabbath
From "Carlow's Defense of the Sabbath."
PUBLISHED IN LONDON, 1724. "Perhaps a man may say, with Samuel, 'Whom have I defrauded? whose ox or ass have I taken?' Some, though they have not thieved from their neighbor, yet have stolen from God the time of his holy day. Who is not afraid to be found such a felon? As the blessed body of Christ was crucified between two thieves, so this blessed day of God is now crucified between those called Christians and the Turks. The Christians keep the first day, and the Turks keep the sixth day. As Herod and Pilate both agreed for Christ's death, so these both join against the Lord's seventh-day Sabbath; and good Lord help them who labor to rescue it?" Austin well observes, that robbers are worse than thieves. Thieves take goods secretly by fraud, when the owners are not aware; but robbers take openly, by force, the owners looking on. Thus men take away the Sabbath day under God's all-seeing eye. That which God holds, they profanely pluck away."