ARCHIBALD FULLARTON & CO.; JOHN WARDLAW, EDINBURGH; W. CURRY, JUN. & CO. DUBLIN; AND HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., AND SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON. CONTENTS. GEN. II. 1-3." Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had Page EXOD. XX. 8-11.-" Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and DISCOURSE IIL On the moral nature of the Sabbath; the duty of holding sacred the entire day;—and the evidence from New Testament example of the change of the day. Same Text, DISCOURSE IV. Page 75 On the more direct authority of the New Testament for the change of the day. HEB. IV. 9, 10.-"There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." 105 On the sanctification of the Sabbath.—The supposed difference in strict'ness between the Jewish and Christian Sabbaths considered;—and the question how far the Sabbath may be the subject of enactment by human laws, under the Christian economy. Isa. LVIII. 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 thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." 138 DISCOURSE VI. The sanctification of the Sabbath-continued.—On the principle, or state of mind and heart, necessary to the right observance of the day; on some of the spurious motives from which the merely outward celebration of it may arise; and on its public, domestic, and personal duties. Same Text, 168 |
