the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

‘ [280] fondness for the credit and reputation which might result on the dedicator from his lordship's being of the same name with him.’ He goes on to speak of himself and his present circumstances in the following terms:—‘I am indeed apprehensive, my Lord, that I shall not escape the censures of many to whom my circumstances and character are known. Some may, perhaps, allege that 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, and dismay; while the first day of the week is most fitly observed as a holy festival, in remembrance of the glorious event which fully ascertained and established the covenant of grace, and was, in fact, observed as such from the earliest period.

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