p. 100 | HOW DIFFERENT THE INTERPRETATION! by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, February 17, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 7

HOW DIFFERENT THE INTERPRETATION!

By R. F. Cottrell

BY ELD. R. F. COTTRELL.

PROTESTANTS quote Rom. 13:1; Tit. 3:1; and 1 Pet. 2:13, 14, to prove that we ought to obey civil rulers,—kings, governors, and magistrates; and hence they argue that all ought to keep Sunday, because it is the law of the land.

But a Catholic bishop, in a discourse entitled, “The Church the Support of Just Government,” says: “Never did the Catholic Church bend the neck under the yoke of a temporal prince. She held directly from Christ, and permitted no sovereign of earth to rule over her.” From this the inference is clear that the “just government” which that church “supports” is her own government, and no other. The powers that be are “directly” vested in her; and she would have all keep Sunday, because it is the law of the church.