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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Fleming (search)
t I have gone out of my province, and have misemployed my time, as-being only a layman, who have the affairs of a large family to attend. Nevertheless, I imagine that this charge will not fix very heavily upon me till it is proved, that, while I was composing these sheets, I had an opportunity of doing something else which would have been beneficial to myself or mine. This pamphlet was shortly succeeded by another, entitled A Plain and Rational Account of the Sabbath, in reply to Mr. Robert Cornthwaite's further Defence of the Seventh-day Sabbath. They contain a very complete and elaborate view of the arguments on which those are accustomed to rely, who contend that the fourth commandment, as such, is in no way binding on Christians, and was, in effect, set aside by the Christian institutions, as we may infer (among other grounds) from the express declaration of St. Paul. (Col. II. 16.) To Christians the seventh day would have been a commemoration of a season of mourning, terror,