by R.L. Dabney
I’d been reading Dabney on preaching sermons, so I picked this up when I wanted more about understanding the Sabbath. It was much better than Chantry’s Call the Sabbath a Delight, mostly because Dabney at least offered some arguments for Sunday as Christian Sabbath rather than just assuming it. He started with reasons rather than jumping straight to rebuke.
That said, I was still unconvinced.
My purpose in this review is to express my thanks for the resource, even to recommend it for the pro-Sunday-as-Sabbath side. Shouldn’t we be able to read and appreciate arguments and even learn stuff?
There are no new points. He takes the reference to the seven-day-week of creation in the Fourth Commandment as proof that the Sabbath is a creational ordinance, so affirmed by but not limited to the Mosaic Law. He also assumes that #4 must continue after Jesus, and because we have some history of the early-centuries Christians meeting on Sundays, they must have transferred the day-of-meeting. I’d see both of those as sabbath principles but not Mosaic Covenant Sabbath proper. (Here’s the sermon where I tried to explain that more.)
Anyway, I’m glad I read it.