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Civil right of the public to the use of the Sunday trains, Grounds of the public right to Sunday trains, Utility of those trains, Suppose that Jews had the management of the railway, and What reply could you make to their reasons (which would Let us do as we would be done to, The Sabbath not endangered by Sunday trains, ཙཙ£ Agitation in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company How the Board managed to give the Sabbatarians a victory Proceedings at the Meetings in March and August 1850, The principles of religious liberty long since shewn to give no such sanction as is alleged to vices and atrocities, Page 28 Locke's exposition of the sphere of the Magistrate's authority, Application of the principle to the question in hand, NOTE C.-GOD'S TRUTH AND Man's Truth, Two meanings of "Truth" distinguished and illustrated, Reflections on such cases, Doctrine of original sin and the corruption of human nature, Influence of extension of one's religious studies, Romanism long the "religious truth" of all Western 29 30 32 34 50 51-53 39-42 50-53 53-54 55 56-61 56 58 The motion of the Sun round the Earth, once an in- 60 The existence of witchcraft, formerly a religious truth" in Britain, 64 72 The creation of the universe in six days, a “religious The Hebrew cosmogony now discovered to be 74 of the narrative of the creation in Genesis, 89-93 The copy of the Fourth Commandment in Exod. xx. 8-11 must be abandoned, and that in Deut. v. 12-15 preferred, Roman Catholic notion of the Infallibility of the Pope, 107 Protestants not exempt from the error of implicit reliance on human authority, 108 Abject deference formerly paid to the authority of Aristotle Men of Science now liberated from such bondage, Test of "general consent,' Its uselessness, Employment of this test by a Sabbatarian writer, Reply to his argument, The rights of laymen asserted, Page 109 110-111 Doctrine of the Church of England and the Reformers con cerning the Sabbath, Doctrine of John Knox, Difficulty of knowing which is " the true Church," 112 113 113 113 114 115-116 117 118 123 125 Divine right claimed alike by Episcopacy and Presbytery, No such authority claimed by it as that with which it has Circumstances tending to bias the assembled Divines in their interpretation of Scripture, The distracted character of the times, Reaction against the Prelatic government of oppressors, Two different systems of "religious truth" endowed by the Noble protest of Milton against the authority of Ecclesiastical Superiority of modern helps to the interpretation of Scrip- Their introduction by Owen and Locke, Folly of setting up the Westminster Confession as a standard of truth, Effects of the erroneous mode of exegesis of the old theolo gians,. Their mistaken notion that the Jewish law is in some degree Whether now binding even on the Jews, sively Jewish law, Revival of Judaism in the Christian Church about the be ginning of the 16th century, . This corruption transmitted through the Puritans to Belief of Knox and others that idolaters ought to be Page 162 164 166 167 173 . 174 176 Notion that the Fourth Commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation, 180 Notion that the capital punishment of murder is pre- 189 Notion that marriage with a deceased wife's sister is 190 Old notion that the Divine right of kings is counte- 195 In what respects the Mosaic Law is of value to the The law of nature and the law of Christ are the true foun dations of duty to Christians, 197 The law of nature the perpetual and universal law, 198 Its obligation acknowledged by the Sabbatarians when they find it expedient to do so, 200 Resemblance of their conduct to that of the Jesuits, 210 The proposition controverted, that, if you slight the Sabbath, you slight religion, and strike at the roots of morality, Natural laws embodied in the Jewish code, bind us only by their own independent authority, 222 Stated seasons of repose from labour, the spirit of the Jewish 225 Ambiguity of the word "moral," 227 The opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays, improperly affirmed to be "immoral," 228 The reverse is the fact, 229 Recreations on the Sabbath were not forbidden to the Jews, 229 229 230 Not the Fourth Commandment but the law of nature enjoins public worship, Page 234 The law of nature prescribes also rural recreation on Sundays to the inhabitants of towns, 235 Health conducive to happiness and virtue, 237 The province of the clergy declared by Bishop Butler to be virtue and religion, life and manners, 239 Means of attaining success therein, 240 A Layman's observations on the Crystal Palace, 240 Uniformity of religious opinion impossible, 242 Consequent unreasonableness of persecution, 243 Natural diversity of minds, 244 Beneficial effects of variety of opinion, 251-3 Disingenuous subscription of Articles of Faith, 252 254 Knox's Confession abandoned by the Scottish Puritans 200 years ago: May not, and ought not, we to abandon theirs? Protestantism a protest against the principle of authority in No opinions can much longer survive, unless capable of standing the test of reason and morality, . 260 New Reformation of Religion now in progress, 261 Encouragement to proceed boldly in the work, 263 Probability that among the notions about to be generally abandoned, is belief in the obligation of the Fourth Commandment upon Gentile Christians, The clergy, railway-servants, and others who work on Sunday, should rest on another day, 270 Admirable provision made for the health of the work-people of Price's Patent Candle Company, London, 270 Repose needed by mental as well as bodily labourers, Sunday's leisure needed for intellectual cultivation, 277 And for the enlivenment of the social and religious affections, 278 278 Active recreation needful, as well as rest, 279 NOTE F.-HISTORY OF MODERN SABBATARIANISM, 279 The Mosaic Sabbath long continued to be observed by Hebrew 279 But the general opinion in the early Church was, that all the 280 |