"_Ques._--How prove you that?
"_Ans._--Because by keeping Sunday they acknowledge the
church's power to ordain feasts and to command them under sin;
and by not keeping the rest commanded by her, they deny that
she has power."
It is the doctrine taught in the standard catechisms of the Roman
Church:
"_Question._--Have you any other way of proving that the church
has power to institute festivals of precept?
"_Answer._--Had she not such power, she could not have done
that in which all modern religionists agree with her,--she
could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first
day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh
day, a change for which there is no Scriptural
authority."--_Keenan's "Doctrinal Catechism," p. 174._
Thus the Papacy proclaims itself the power that has _thought_ to change
the precepts of the Most High.
On every count, the Roman Church is the counterpart of the little horn
of Daniel 7. Before our eyes--in the common practice of Christendom--the
commandment of God regarding sacred time is made void by the traditions
of men.
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