Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer
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page 258 of 443 (58%)
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"Finally, at the last opening on the eighteenth of January,
1562, their last scruple was set aside; the archbishop of Rheggio made a speech in which he openly declared that tradition stood above Scripture. The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the church had changed Sabbath into Sunday, not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority. With this, to be sure, the last illusion was destroyed, and it was declared that tradition does not signify antiquity, but continual inspiration."--_Dr. J.H. Holtzman, "Canon and Tradition," p. 263._ Ever since this memorable council, the Sunday institution has been held forth as the mark of the power of the church to command religious observances. Thus, again, Keenan's "Doctrinal Catechism" says: "_Question._--Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?" "_Answer._--Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her,--she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."--_Page 174._ The prophecy of Daniel declared that this power would "think" to change the times and laws of the Most High; and the change of the Sabbath commandment is set forth as the mark of the church's authority above the written law of the Most High. |
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