secondly; with respect to the sabbath we allmost universally Regard
the first day of the week as the sabbath, but when God appeared
to Moses on the mount he commanded him to keep the seventh
day as the sabbath & not to labour on that day, [Exodus 20:8-11] so it appears that
if their has mot been a change of the sabbath we as a body are not
keeping the day that we ware commanded to keep still it is held up
to view at this day that the sabbath has been changed, but is it mot
allowed that their has mot been no change in any of those commands
that were given to Moses at the time that the command of the bsabbath was
given & why has the sabbath been changed while the other commands
remain good & sacred & while we are under them & ought to obey them
it is maintained ^by some^ that Christ rose on the first day of the week & that
the work of Redempttion was greater than the work of creation & this they
appear to consider as the change of the sabbath, but when we carefully
peruse the writings of the four Evangelist respecting the resurrection of
Christ does it not appear as reasonable to suppose that Christ rose on
the seventh day as first, & even did Christ really rise on the first
day of the week does that prove that it was a change of the sabbath
& if the sabbath was changed by the resurrection of Christ would their
mot have been sumthing said respecting that change so that the
evidence would have been clear that the change of the sabbath was
then perfected. sir this is a subject that has some length of time
ocipied a seat in my mind & I lay it before you considering you
have far deeper understanding of the word of God than myself & would
wish to know your views uppon this subject as I have not understood
the scriptures to be verry plain respecting the change of the Sabbath

the third & last is the subject of
babtism & it is a subject to that has long lain with wait on
my mind I think it not ownly our duty but our highest privledge
to take the word of God & make it the man of our council & form
our principles theirby still we may benefit by the instruction of
those that are more experianced than ourselves I for one Consider
myself transacting business for Eternity & I believe that Jesus Christ
sat the example for the pilgrain to follow & I believe that the christian
ought to strive to imitate his example as near as possible (allthough
I for one come far short of it) I at times have been allmost
overwhelmed in as^s^tonishment while meditating uppon the difference
of opinion & principle that exist in our land uppon religious subjects
when we have all the sane bible to read the same spirit to direct
but more especially uppon the subject of babtism. my mind has
long been seleled [settled] with regard to this subject still I have remained
silent uppon the subject as I am of the opinion that evry person ought to
be fully established uppon ^in^ principles uppon which much depends
I had the ordanonce of infant babtism administered to me but it does
not answer my mind for I have not found any scripture to support
it from genesis to revelation

secondly; with respect to the sabbath we allmost universally Regard the first day of the week as the sabbath, but when God appeared to Moses on the mount he commanded him to keep the seventh day as the sabbath & not to labour on that day, so it appears that if their has mot been a change of the sabbath we as a body are not keeping the day that we ware commanded to keep still it is held up to view at this day that the sabbath has been changed, but is it mot allowed that their has mot been no change in any of those commands that were given to Moses at the time that the command of thesabbath was given & why has the sabbath been changed while the other commands remain good & sacred & while we are under them & ought to obey them it is maintained by some that Christ rose on the first day of the week & that the work of Redempttion was greater than the work of creation & this they appear to consider as the change of the sabbath, but when we carefully peruse the writings of the four Evangelist respecting the resurrection of Christ does it not appear as reasonable to suppose that Christ rose on the seventh day as first, & even did Christ really rise on the first day of the week does that prove that it was a change of the sabbath & if the sabbath was changed by the resurrection of Christ would their mot have been sumthing said respecting that change so that the evidence would have been clear that the change of the sabbath was then perfected. sir this is a subject that has some length of time ocipied a seat in my mind & I lay it before you considering you have far deeper understanding of the word of God than myself & would wish to know your views uppon this subject as I have not understood the scriptures to be verry plain respecting the change of the Sabbath

the third & last is the subject of babtism & it is a subject to that has long lain with wait on my mind I think it not ownly our duty but our highest privledge to take the word of God & make it the man of our council & form our principles theirby still we may benefit by the instruction of those that are more experianced than ourselves I for one Consider myself transacting business for Eternity & I believe that Jesus Christ sat the example for the pilgrain to follow & I believe that the christian ought to strive to imitate his example as near as possible (allthough I for one come far short of it) I at times have been allmost overwhelmed in asstonishment while meditating uppon the difference of opinion & principle that exist in our land uppon religious subjects when we have all the sane bible to read the same spirit to direct but more especially uppon the subject of babtism. my mind has long been seleled with regard to this subject still I have remained silent uppon the subject as I am of the opinion that evry person ought to be fully established in principles uppon which much depends I had the ordanonce of infant babtism administered to me but it does not answer my mind for I have not found any scripture to support it from genesis to revelation