"The
Sabbath is a part of the Decalogue-the Ten Commandments.
This alone for ever settles the question as to the perpetuity of
the institution...Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole
moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand...The teaching
of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath."- T.C. BLAKE,
D.D., "Theology Condensed," pages 474, 475.
"We
must not imagine that the coming of Christ has freed us from the
authority of the law; for it is the eternal rule of a devout and
holy life, and must therefore be as unchangeable as the justice
of God, which it embraced, is constant and uniform."-JOHN CALVIN,
"Commentary on a Harmony of the Gospels," Vol. 1,
page 277.
"The
moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others,
to the obedience thereof; and that not only in regard to the matter
contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the
Creator who gave it. Neither doth Christ in the gospel in any way
dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation." "Westminster
Confession of Faith," Chap. 19, Art. 5.
"God
instituted the Sabbath at the creation of man, setting apart the
seventh day for the purpose, and imposed its observance as a universal
and perpetual moral obligation upon the race." American Presbyterian
Board of Publication, Tract No. 175.
"The
observance of the seventh-day Sabbath did not cease till it was
abolished after the [Roman] empire became Christian," American
Presbyterian Board of Publication, Tract No. 118.