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SERM.
vl.]
THE LORD'S-DAY,
OR
CHRISTIAN
SABBATH.
85
from
his
work
of
creation
:
The
sabbath
was
given
to
man
to
put
him
in
mind
of
the
creation
of
the
world by
the true God
in
six
days,
and
to,
do
honour
to
God the
Creator. But
all
mankind
in
all ages, as well as
Adam
their
Father,
should
preserve this
truth
in
their
remem-
brance
:
and the
continual return
of
a
seventh day
of rest
is
an'everlasting
memorial
of
it,
and
gives
opportunities
continually
for .paying
homage
to
that
Almighty Being
that
made
us.
3.
" Consider the place
which this
command
of
the
sabbath bears
in
the
law
of
God,
when
it
was
renew-
ed and enjoined
to
the nation
of
Israel:
This
Both
in
the opinion
of
most divines
add considerable weight
to this argument.
It
is
one
of the
commands.
of the
moral
law,
that
was
pronounced
by
the
mouth
of God
himself
on Sinai, with
much glory
and
terror
:
It
stands
amongst
those
laws
in
Exodus
xx.
1
-17.
which
are
con
-
ceived
to be
moral and perpetual,
except
in
some.
small
limitations
and
accommodations
to
the Jewish state.
Remember
the
sabbath-day
to keep it
holy.
Six
days
shalt thou
labour
and
do all thy work,
but
the
seventh
is
the
sabbath
of
the
Lord
thy
God,
á.c."
It.
was
written
with
the
rest
in
the
two
tables
of
stone, which
perhaps
in
that
typical
dispensation might denote perpetuity,
and
that
it
must last like
a
rock for
ever.
It
was
written
by
the
finger
of God
himself,
which
gives
a peculiar
honour
to
it,
and it
was
laid
up
in
the
ark
of
the
covenant
on
which
God
dwelt
in
a bright
cloud,
or a
blaze
of
glory
behind the
cloud;
and
thus
it
was
put under God's
own
eye
and care,
together
with these laws which
are
of per-
petual
obligation.
It
is
granted indeed
that
in the books
of Moses
there
are
some
peculiar rigors and ceremonies,
and
severe
prohibitions
of
every
earthly
work
under capital penal-
ties
added
to the
sabbath
and
enjoined
to
the
Jews;
bût
these do
not
beldng
to
the sabbath considered in itself,
but are properly the
ceremonial
and Jewish appendages
-of it.
4.
When the apostles
by
divine
appointment
had
abolished all the
Jewish
sabbaths, and all those
ceremo-
nies
and peculiar austerities which belonged
to
the ob-
servation
of
the seventh
day in
the Jewish State;
Gal.
iv.
9--11.
and
Col. ii.
1G,
17.
yet
." they
still
practised
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