life. We can only form an idea of the glorified state by the seal of the "Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. (See Eph. i. 13, 14.

As the land of Canaan represented the state of the church, and was attainable by faith and obedience; so the sabbaths were a type of that rest found in Christ by faith; as is represented by the apostle in the 4th chapter of Hebrews, from the 1st to the 12th verse. The apostle begins this chapter by exhorting the Hebrew brethren to fear, lest they should come short of the true rest, (verse 1.) in the 2d verse, the apostle speaks of the children of Israel, that they did not enter into rest [the land of Canaan] because the word preached to them was " not mixed with faith in them that heard it."

The apostle, when he had spoken of the type, shows that it was a type of the christian rest, attained by the faith of the gospel, and says, "For we which have believed do enter into rest," verse 3d.-The apostle then proceeds to speak of the 7th day [or sabbath,] and considers it to be a type of the gospel rest, brought in by Christ, and represents that Jesus, (meaning Joshua,) when in the promised land, yet spake of the true rest by the similitude of the sabbath day. The apostle says, "if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day," (verse 8th.) "there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." The 10th

verse, when read with the 3d, gives us the meaning of the apostle.-In the 3d verse he says, "We which have believed do enter into rest," in the 10th verse, he says, " he that is entered into rest, he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from HIS."

Now it must be more than obvious to every person who reads Paul's epistle to the Hebrews, that he was endeavouring to persuade them not to trust in the works of the law, that is, in ceremonies, and that the rest was obtained by faith in Christ, and that such as entered this rest ceased from their works of legal righteousness.

As I have proved that the sacraments are one with the law of Moses, the continuance of them are to be considered as a transgression of God's gospel sabbath, and I do not hesitate to say, that they who claim justification by the observance of meats, drinks, sabbath days, or sacraments, do not rightly understand what it is to be "justified by faith in Christ." I do not say that they are not christians; I would only be understood, that they do not enter into rest; they are yet trusting in the law, as if perfection was by the flesh. I acknowledge for myself, that though I had that which is called Christianity, yet, years had passed before I knew what it was to enter into rest; since that time, though men preach this, that, and the other thing, as means of grace, it is as nothing, or worse than nothing to me-more than that which is inward, pro

ducing love to God, and love to man, is to me as light as chaff, and as worthless as dross, and as fleeting as the wind.

As the transgression of the typical sabbath was followed with a curse, so those who have transgressed the Spiritual sabbath by busying themselves in outward ordinances, have brought upon themselves all the miseries of contention, even unto death, as I have before shown.-Did I believe in what is called Holy-time, I should show by the scriptures, that divines have committed three great evils:1. They have rejected the seventh day, which was the sabbath commanded by God under the law: 2. They have without any authority from scripture, made choice of the first day of the week, for the sabbath; so in obedience to CONSTANTINE, they teach for doctrine the commandments of men. The sabbath which is now observed, was, as we are informed enjoined by Constantine in the fourth century. 3. They have transgressed the Spiritual sabbath, which is the only gospel sabbath, by not entering into the rest by faith in Christ as before shown.

No doubt by these remarks, my reader will discover, that I do not believe that one day in the week is better than another, but I would observe that I am willing to keep the sabbath in conformity to the laws of the people. Should the rulers say that one, two, or three days in the week should be set apart for worship; each day should be equally respected

by me, but it should be a civil institution only. No good man will break the law or peace of community in any thing reasonable. No person should think themselves sanctified any more for observing one day more than another.

Teachers who frequently threaten their hearers, and many christian people with awful denunciations, because they do not follow their tradition would do well to enjoin the 7th day as a sabbath, or shew us some reason for keeping the 1st day of the week; but I think the Spiritual sabbath to be most essential.

Nothing is more common, than that christians contend for the use of the sacrament, as they say, for signs, and on the principle, that they serve to affect the mind; but because such affection is not grace, the apostle warns the Galatians against it, and the means by which it was brought about. "Howbeit," saith the apostle, Gal. iv. 8, &c. "when ye knew not God, ye did serve unto them" [elements,bread, wine and water]" which by nature are no Gods, but know after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly ele ments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage." The apostle having warned them against such ceremonial worship as consisted in the elements, he then proceeds to warn them against every external observance. "Ye observe," said he "days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed labor on you in vain!! The apostle

well understood that, of such carnal observances as professors in general little consider; namely, that the blending of such carnal ceremonies with the gospel, much tends to show the dispensation of the Son of God imperfect. It leads the mind from trusting in Christ, as the only foundation. It leads them to build for themselves worldly tabernacles for worship, and hinders them from travelling forward into the kingdom of God. It tends to austerity and superstition, in will-worship, and a spirit of self-righteousness, too subtle to be perceived by such as are the dupes of it. -Ó, my soul doth mourn within me, when I see so many of my fellow men caught in a way that seems right unto them, but the end thereof is DEATH. It is because such worship tends to lead the mind from truth to error, from the substance to the shadow, and from every thing good to every thing evil; that the apostle said to the Galatians, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth. "Where," said he, "is the blessedness ye spake of? ***-Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth, they [ordinances] zealously affect you but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them."

That the ordinances have the above effect I need not go far to show, for that spirit attends them that ever did, does, and ever will, and the more men stick to them, the more they alienate from a life in Christ, and the