Eight studies of the Lord's day.

[ Gray, George Seaman ]

Published by Cambridge [MA] Riverside Press, 1884.

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Fair rubbed quarter calf,spine chipped, cracking at inner hinges. Printed for private distribution. xiv, 249 p.; 21.5 cm. Outer leaves (including title-page) toned from endpapers Contents: 1. The phenomena of the day -- 2. The origination of the Lord's day -- 3. The week -- 4. The primeval sacred day -- 5. The Mosaic sabbath -- 6. The sabbatic system of Israel -- 7. The permanent and the transient in the sabbatic system -- 8. The fourth commandment. -- `No one who reads the "Bampton Lectures" of Dr. Hessey [Sunday : itsorigin, history, and present obligation, by James Augustus Hessey, 1860] can fail to appreciate alike his candor and his devout spirit. An no one canescape the conviction that if Dr. Hessey is right, the Lord's Day cannot stand as an observance obligatory on Christians. In respect to its authorityhe himself places it on a level with the ordinance of Confirmation; in respect of the character of its celebration, with Christmas Day. Yet he himself pleads for a peculiar observance of Sunday, to be enforced by the civil power, as well as a peculiar observance to be paid by believers. It cannot be that Dr. Hessey is either wholly right or wholly wrong. Sunday is manifestly not in every sense the Jewish Sabbath, nor in every sense its successor. That the two are in some way related, is proved by the relation of both to the continuous week, by the continuous use of the Decalogue in the publicservices of the Christian Church, and by the ineradical confidence of believers in the underlying unity and consistency of the whole course of God's redemptive dispensation.' (Preface) -- (Authorship as given in Halkett & Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous literature, v. 9, p. 86a). Binding is Hardcover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eight studies of the Lord's day.
• Publisher: Cambridge [MA] Riverside Press, 1884.
• Binding: Hardcover