Excerpt from A Succinct History of the Sabbath Day: Carefully Compiled From the Old and New Testaments HE world, even the Christian world, is divided in their views on the question, Whether God made the heavens and the earth and 'all that in them is, in the short Space of six days, as we now count time, or whether that great work occupied six periods of time, which might represent millions, or billions, or trillions of our years. Happily this question does not disturb our investigation, as our problem will work as well under one hypothesis as the other. It is a necessary preliminary, however, to refer to the week of creation, as whatever the length of days might have been, it is generally conceded that the, week of creation is the type of our week of seven days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.