SEAM. VI.] THE LORD'S-DAY, OR CHRISTIAN SABBATH. $3 ness to creatures such as we, who were born and brought up in this dark region ofsins and sorrows ! It is the office of the law here on earth to give 'us the knowledge of sin ; but there it shall lose this office, it shall convince us of sin no more ; for it shall dwell in us, to discover the beauty of holiness and to make us for ever holy. O when will the day come, that we shall be sanctified in this complete degree ? When shall that blessed state commence, and the law be wrought into our nature with such power, and be practised with such perfection, that it will be able to bring no charge of sin against us either in thought, word or deed for ever? While we groan here, being burdened under the remains of corruption, while the law of God which works in our consciences gives us many a severe reproof and heart-ach, let us look forward with hope and desire toward that state where our hearts shall be moulded into the very form of this law by the efficacy of divine grace, where sin shall be banished from all the powers of our souls, and pains, and sorrows and death and all the bitter fruits of sin, shall be done away, and shall be found no more forever. Amen. SERMON VI. THE LORD'S-DAY, OR CHRISTIAN SABBATH. GEN i1. 3. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work, which God created and made. IN the history of the creation of the world and the be- ginning of mankind, Moses gives us an account of the appointment of a sabbath, or one day in seven that should be sanctified or separated from the common affairs of this life, devoted to the purposes of religion, and receive -a peculiar blessing from God. I think it cannot rea- sonably be supposed, as some writers have done, that the sacred historian would take such special notice in this place of a certain day, which was not appointed at that G
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