Wesley Corpus

by his actions and his disputations. Did they accuse his disciples of gathering corn upon the sabbath, being an hungred ? he tells them what David did in the same extremity. His commanding the impotent man to take up his bed, was it so great a toil as to lift up the ox or the ass out of the pit ? Nor had God so spoken the word, but that he could repeal it ; the Son of Man being Lord also of the sabbath. Nay, it is observable that our Lord wrought more works of charity upon the sabbath, than on all the other days ; and several of them, when there was no extreme necessity that the cure should be performed on that day, or the man perish. What then ? came our Saviour to destroy the law ? No but to let them un derstand the right meaning of it, that they might no longer be misled by the Scribes or Pharisees." Further, that the sabbath was to be repealed is by this apparent : . " First, that it was an institute of Moses ; Secondly, that it was an institute peculiar to th Jewish nation." (Dr. Peter Heylin's His tory of the Sabbath." 1st edit. p. 168.)