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THE
LORDS -DAY,
OR
CHRISTIAN SABBATH. CSERM
vi.
Lord's
-day, which
is
a day
of
rest
and
worship,' invaded
and
intrenched upon
by
the cares and
business
of
this
world."
Endeavour
to
quit yourselves of
them
so
early
the foregoing
evening,
that
they
may
not cut short your
hours
of
sleep
that
night,
and thereby
render
you listless
and
drowsy
upon the
day
appointed
for worship.
There
is
a
great deal of
christian
prudence
and discretion to
be
seen
in
such a disposal
of our
worldly businesses, as may
give us
full
leisure for
God
and heavenly things
upon
the Lord's
-day
;
that
when
our thoughts are
rising
up
to
our
risen and ascended Saviour,
we
may
not
feel
the
cares
of
life
hang
about
them like
so
many
clogs
and
chains
to
drag
us
downwards,
and
divide
our hearts
from
God
and
our Saviour
again.
III.
"
Think of
the promises
which
are made
to
those
who
with'a
religious care
serve
and
worship
God upon
his
appointed
day.
There
are
some
very gracious words
of
this kind
spoken
to
the Jews, and
may with
equal
jus-
tice
be
applied
to
those
who
observe the day
of God's
ap-
pointed
rest,
for the spiritual purposes
of it under
every
dispensation. Is.
lvi.
1
-7.
"
Thus
saith
the Lord,
keep
ye
judgment
and
do
justice,
for
my
salvation
is
near
to
come,
and
my
righteousness
to be
revealed
;"
which
words have
a plain reference
to the
gospel-state.
"
Bless-
ed
is
the
m
'h
that
keepeth the sabbath
from
polluting
it
;the
sons
of
the
stranger
who
join
themselves to
the
Lord
to serve him and to love
his
name, every one
that
keepeth
the sabbath from polluting
it,
and taketh hold of
my
covenant,
I
will
bring them
to
my
holy
mountain and
make
them joyful in
my
house
of
prayer
:
their
sacrifices
shall be
accepted upon
my
altar
:
I
will give
them, in
my
house, and within
my walls,
a
place and a name
better
than
that of
sons
and daughters." And
in
lviii.
chapter
of
the
same
prophecy, and
-verses
13,
14.
"
If
thou
turn
away
thy
foot
"from.
the sabbath from doing
thy
pleasure
on
my
holy day,
and
call the
sabbath a
delight,
the
holy
of the
Lord
honourable, and shalt honour
him,
not
doing
thy own
ways,
nor
finding thy
own
pleasure,
nor
speaking
thy
own
words,
then shalt thou delight thy-
self in the Lord, and
I
will feed
thee with
the heritage
of
Jacob
thy father,
for
the
mouth of the Lord bath
spoken
it."
And
there
has
been
a
multitude
of
instances
even
under the
gospel,
wherein the
blessings
of the
upper
and