28.
This opinion is different from that commonly entertained among the learned.

A few authorities alone may suffice to sustain our statement.
_Dr Ruecker_, in his work on _The Lord's Day_, in which he thoroughly examines the views of the church on this subject, in all the different ages of her history, fully confirms the position of the Definite Platform.

He says, "_The Reformers do not recognize in the religious observance of Sunday an institution resting on an immediate divine command;_ and the idea of a transfer of the Sabbatic law of the Old to the New Testament Sunday, is altogether strange to them, and is positively rejected by them, as in consistent with the gospel" (Die Reformatorem erkennen in der Sonntagsfeier _keine unmittelbar goettliche anordnung, &c._) Ruckert, von Tage des Herrn, p.

48.
And again, on p.

67, he affirms this more liberal view of the Lord's Day, to be the more general one in Germany at the present time.