"I
wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should
reject the law of Ten Commandments...Whosoever abrogates the law
must of necessity abrogate sin also."-MARTIN LUTHER, Spiritual
Antichrist," pages 71, 72.
"The
observance of the Lord's day [Sunday] is founded not on any command
of God, but on the authority of the church." Augsburg Confession
of Faith, quoted in "Catholic Sabbath Manual,"
Part 2, Chap. 1, Sec. 10.
"For
up to this day mankind has absolutely trifled with the original
and most special revelation of the Holy God, the ten words written
upon the tables of the Law from Sinai."-"Crown Theological
Library," page I78.
"The
Christians in the ancient church very soon distinguished the first
day of the week, Sunday; however, not as a Sabbath, but as an assembly
day of the church, to study the Word of God together, and to celebrate
the ordinances one with another: without a shadow of doubt, this
took place as early as the first part of the second century."-Bishop
GRIMELUND, "History of the Sabbath," page
60.
"They
[the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord's
day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it appears, neither is there
any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day.
Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church, since
it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments." -Augsburg
Confession of Faith, Art. 28, par. 9.
"The
festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a
human ordinance."- AUGUSTUS NEANDER, "History
of the Christian Religion and Church," Vol. 1, page
186.