James MacGregor
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James MacGregor (1829–1894) was a Free Church of Scotland minister who became Professor of Systematic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, before emigrating to serve the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. He authored a handbook of Reformed systematic theology and contributed to major ecclesiastical controversies of his era.
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The Sabbath Question: Part I (The Practice and Precepts of Jesus)
I. The Practice and Precepts of Jesus I will introduce the discussion of the question by commenting on the lessons derivable from the gospel history of the Word Incarnate. It is true that, from the first verse of Genesis to the last of Revelation, every word of God prepares the believer for the due…
The Sabbath Question: Part II (Morality of the Decalogue in General)
II. Morality of the Decalogue in General The Decalogue, because a code of moral laws, has lain at the foundation of God's covenant with His church under both dispensations; and has thus become the instrument of connecting, not only the New Testament with the Old Testament, but the new creation with…
The Sabbath Question: Part III (Morality of the Fourth Commandment in Particular)
III. Morality of the Fourth Commandment in Particular The doctrine of a Trinity in Unity is evidenced by the system of Bible facts regarding the constitution of the Godhead, because this doctrine, and this alone, accounts for them all. And in like manner we maintain that our doctrine of the…
The Sabbath Question: Part IV (Rationale of the Sabbath Law as Moral)
IV. Rationale of the Sabbath Law as Moral 'As it is of the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven…
The Sabbath Question: Part V (The Developed Calvinistic Church)
V. The Developed Calvinistic Church The highest human authority that has ever pronounced on the Sabbath question is that of the Reformed Churches of Britain and the Continent in the first half of the seventeenth century. For these Churches had not yet, on the one hand, become dead and hard in their…
The Sabbath Question: Part VI (The Duty of Christians)
VI. The Duty of Christians It is not my purpose here to give anything like a Christian directory for Sabbath sanctification at all times. What I have in view is to give some practical hints regarding some special aspects of Christian duty in connection with the controversy now fairly begun…