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SEAM.
VI.]
THE LORD'S-DAY,
OR
CHRISTIAN
SABBATH.
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ness to
creatures
such as
we,
who were
born and
brought
up
in
this
dark
region
of
sins
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 for
ever.
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
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