Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties
by Robert Cox
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458967015
Paperback|9781458967015
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nothing to do: I am willing to assume either that the Jews, or the followers of Sir Andrew Agnew, or the advocates of Sunday trains, have the good fortune to hold opinions that coincide with absolute and eternal truth; and I am equally willing to assume that any or all of them are so unfortunate as to mistake error for truth. Granting that Sir Andrew Agnew was the favoured possessor of sound theological views, and that everybody who rejects his doctrine is in error, ?still I ask, What effective answer could any disciple of his make to the supposed Jewish argument 1?what effective answer can be made to it by any man who repudiates the principle that all are entitled to judge for themselves what day is the Sabbath, and what they may without impiety do upon tha day ? Not a shred of argument could such a man employ with the slightest prospect of success. He has thrown away the only weapon with which it was possible to assail the enemy and if he has any regard for consistency his plain and only course is quietly to retire from the field. But unless I widely mistake the character of certain of my opponents, no intruding thought about consistency would for a moment impede the outpouring of their indignation. Even if there were a synagogue in every parish, and if every synagogue (at the urgent instigation of its rabbin?himself still more urgently roused by a circular from the head-quarters of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance), had sent up a memorial exhorting the Directors, with ready-made eloquence, to be firm in obeying God rather than man?if the strongest expressions of grief and indignation had come from the synagogues of Stornoway, and Knock, and Lochcarron, and Oban, and Trumisgarry, and scores or hundreds of other enlightened places ? would our clerical copartners have looked upon t...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458967015 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458967018 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $44.82 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 286 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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