CHAPTER 10 - THE SABBATH DURING THE LAST OF THE SEVENTY
WEEKS 115 ...................................................
CHAPTER 11 - THE SABBATH DURING THE MINISTRY OF THE
APOSTLES 158 ................................................
PART II - SECULAR HISTORY 193 ...............................
CHAPTER 12 - EARLY APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH 193 ...........
CHAPTER 13 - THE SUNDAY-LORD'S DAY NOT TRACEABLE TO THE
APOSTLES 204 ................................................
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CHAPTER 14 - THE FIRST WITNESSES FOR SUNDAY 228 .........
CHAPTER 15 - EXAMINATION OF A FAMOUS FALSEHOOD 243 ......
CHAPTER 16 - ORIGIN OF FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE 258 .........
CHAPTER 17 - THE NATURE OF EARLY FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE
282
CHAPTER 18 - THE SABBATH IN THE RECORD OF THE EARLY
FATHERS 308 .................................................
CHAPTER 19 - THE SABBATH AND FIRST-DAY DURING THE FIRST
FIVE CENTURIES 332 ..........................................
CHAPTER 20 - SUNDAY DURING THE DARK AGES 368 ............
CHAPTER 21 - TRACES OF THE SABBATH DURING THE DARK AGES
398
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CHAPTER 22 - POSITION OF THE REFORMERS CONCERNING THE
SABBATH AND FIRST DAY 432 ...................................
CHAPTER 23 - LUTHER AND CARLSTADT 446 ...................
CHAPTER 24 - SABBATH-KEEPERS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
459
CHAPTER 25 - HOW AND WHEN SUNDAY APPROPRIATED THE
FOURTH COMMANDMENT 470 ......................................
CHAPTER 26 - ENGLISH SABBATH-KEEPERS 479 ................
CHAPTER 27 - THE SABBATH IN AMERICA 493 .................
INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED 513 .............................
INDEX OF SCRIPTURES 516 .................................
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 522 ...................................
PART I - BIBLE HISTORY
CHAPTER 1 - THE CREATION
Time and eternity - The Creator and his work - Events of the first day of time - Of
the second - Of the third - Of the fourth - Of the fifth - Of the sixth
TIME, as distinguished from eternity, may be defined as that part of duration
which is measured by the Bible. From the earliest date in the book of Genesis to
the resurrection of the unjust at the end of the millennium, the period of about
7000 years is measured off. i
1 Before the commencement of this great week of