BA ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, 112 Fulton-st. 1585 263 SI off PREFACE. THE following Lectures were originally prepared' not for the press, but for the pulpit. The object of the writer was, not to say all that might be said, or that has been said, on the subject of the Sabbath, but to present the main points in the argument for the perpetuity and divine authority of this religious institution. He wished to show that the Sabbath is an inseparable part of that divine system of arrangements, under which God has organized his Universal Church, in its downward passage, through all ages, towards its ultimate extension over all nations. having shown this, not by dwelling on the numerous collateral points, which may be supposed to favor such a conclusion, but by going at once to the main grounds, on which such a conclusion rests, his prin And |
