Anglican: "There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday…. Into the rest of Sunday [i.e., Sunday as a day of rest and worship] no divine law enters…. The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands on exactly the same footing as the observance of Sunday."
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"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, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments." Authored by Philipp Melanchthon with approval by Martin Luther, Augsburg Confession of Faith, Art. 28, Par. 9.
But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old Testament Sabbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day had to be kept by the children of Israel. In other words, they insist that Sunday is the divinely appointed New Testament Sabbath, and so they endeavor to enforce the Sabbatical observance of Sunday by so-called blue laws…. These churches err in their teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect." John T. Mueller, Sabbath or Sunday?, pp. 15,16.
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"It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day." Buck's Theological Dictionary.
Baptist: "To me [it] seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question…. never alluded to any transference of the day; also that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.
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"Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!" Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual (still in print), in a paper read before New York ministers' conference held Nov. 13, 1893.
Catholic: Q. Which is the Sabbath day? A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
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A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
