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-The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Sabbath: A Sermon, by William Wood

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-Title: The Sabbath: A Sermon

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-Author: William Wood

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-Release Date: December 27, 2021  [eBook #67021]

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-***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SABBATH: A SERMON***

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-Transcribed from the 1831 Roake and Varty edition by David Price.  Many

-thanks to the British Library for making their copy available.

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-                               THE SABBATH;

-                                    A

-                                 SERMON.

-

-

-                                * * * * *

-

-                                    BY

-                       THE REV. WILLIAM WOOD, B.D.

-                 RECTOR OF COULSDON, AND VICAR OF FULHAM.

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-                                * * * * *

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-                                * * * * *

-

-                                 LONDON:

-                       ROAKE AND VARTY, 31, STRAND.

-                                  1831.

-

-                                * * * * *

-

-                                 LONDON:

-                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.

-

-                                * * * * *

-

-                                  TO THE

-                         INHABITANTS OF COULSDON,

-                              THE FOLLOWING

-                                 SERMON,

-          INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREACHED IN THEIR CHURCH IN THE

-                        AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 23rd,

-                       IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

-                    AND PRINTED FOR THEIR INSTRUCTION,

-                        BY THEIR FAITHFUL PASTOR.

-

-                                * * * * *

-

-

-

-

-NOTICE TO THE READER.

-

-

-THE Sermon here presented to the Public is below all criticism.  It makes

-no pretensions to novelty, or to merit of any kind; it is only one of the

-thousands which are preached every week by men, who, in the midst of evil

-report, labour, nevertheless, with an anxious zeal for the salvation of

-souls.  It was composed in haste, with no intention of printing it, for a

-sequestered parish, where much remains of ancient simplicity; but where

-the author lamented to see, as he thought, a neglect of public worship,

-not occasioned by infidelity, or by profligacy, as in great towns, but by

-ignorance of the subject, or thoughtlessness of conduct.

-

-The inclemency of the weather having prevented him from preaching it at

-the time intended, and no other opportunity being likely to occur for

-many months, he determined to print it at once for the use of his

-parishioners; but some other little tracts of his, with the same limited

-object, having been called for by persons desirous of doing good in their

-several spheres, and on a larger scale, he thinks it possible that they

-may wish to have _this_ also, and therefore he publishes it.

-

-The subject of the sermon, in these days especially, is a momentous one.

-May God bless it, for the sake of the subject, to his own glory, and to

-the benefit of men!  The author has no other wish.

-

-

-

-

-THE SABBATH.

-

-

-                                 Exod. xx. 8.

-

-               “_Remember the Sabbath-day_, _to keep it holy_.”

-

-THIS command, to remember the Sabbath-day, in order to keep it holy, was

-given by Almighty God himself to the Jews.  I say, it was given by

-himself.  He did not order any prophet, or other holy man, to give it in

-_his_ name; He gave it himself in his own person; He spoke it aloud, in

-the ears of all the people, with his own voice.  And this voice, as we

-are told, was so terrible, that the hearers of it were smitten with

-intolerable fear and trembling, and began to entreat, with the most

-humble and urgent supplications, that God would vouchsafe, in future, to

-make known his will to them by the voice of Moses rather than by his own.

-

-No doubt, _we_ also, who are assembled here, should think it a very awful

-thing, and should tremble in our whole frame, if we were to hear the

-voice of the great God of heaven and earth speaking to us from a cloud,

-or from a mountain-top; and we should naturally desire to hear the

-gentler, the more familiar voice of a man, like one of ourselves; to whom

-also we might listen, and with whom we might talk and reason, without any

-dismay, or even alarm.  However, in this case, we may presume, the mighty

-terror of God’s voice was increased tenfold to those who heard it, by the

-accompanying hoarse blast of the brazen trumpet, waxing louder and

-louder; by the continual crash of tremendous thunderings; and by the red,

-fiery flashes of direful lightnings, which burst around them, whilst God

-was speaking, out of the thick, dark smoke that covered the top of the

-mountain “where God was;” the whole mountain itself, too, shook from its

-very foundations, and seemed to be all in a flame, burning with fire.

-

-Now, what was the reason of this unusual manifestation of the Divine

-Majesty, but that God wished to give the command in the most striking,

-impressive manner, so that it should never be forgotten by _that_

-generation of men; and to show them a terrific instance of his power

-also, that they might tremble at the very thought of disobeying him, and

-of profaning, or neglecting, the Sabbath-day, which he _thus_ commanded

-them to remember, to keep it holy.

-

-But this was not all.  God was not satisfied that He had done enough,

-even when He had uttered this command with his own voice, and with all

-that show of his terrible power and majesty; He wrote it also on a tablet

-of stone with his own finger; and He ordered the sacred tablet to be

-preserved with the utmost care, in the most sacred place—in the very ark

-where his whole covenant with his chosen people was preserved also.  One

-generation alone could have heard that voice, and have seen those

-miraculous signs; but many succeeding generations, to remote times, might

-see the tablet of stone, and read the writing of God’s finger, and learn

-the Divine will for themselves with a more reverential awe; whilst every

-other supernatural circumstance of the history was taught by one

-generation to another, and was handed down from father to son through

-_all_ generations.

-

-You may readily now understand, then, of what vast importance this

-command must be in the eye of God, and how necessary the observance of it

-is for the welfare and happiness of man.  For, if this were not so—if it

-made no difference, either to God’s own glory, or to _our_ welfare and

-happiness, whether the Sabbath-day were remembered to keep it holy or

-not; it is difficult to conceive that God should have taken so much

-pains, as it were, to establish a Sabbath-day at all; by descending, as

-He did, from heaven upon the Mount, in the midst of lightnings, and

-thunderings, and an earthquake; by proclaiming it to the astonished,

-trembling multitude with his own voice; by writing it, besides, with his

-own finger; and by ordering it to be laid up in the ark as a divine

-ordinance for ever.

-

-But how does all this apply to other nations, and to _us_, of _this_

-nation, and of _this_ age?  God gave the command in this miraculous

-manner to the Jews only; how do _we_ know that He intended that _we_, and

-all mankind, should observe it to the end of time?

-

-This is a very reasonable question, and it may have a very satisfactory

-answer; namely, that the same causes for a Sabbath-day, and for

-remembering it, to keep it holy for ever, concern alike all the rest of

-mankind as well as the Jews; and that _we_ Christians, above others, have

-especial cause for hallowing our own Sabbath-day; such as neither the

-Jews, nor the rest of mankind, until they become Christians, _can_ have

-for hallowing their’s.  If it were _their_ bounden duty to hallow

-Saturday, or any other day, much more is it _ours_ to hallow Sunday.

-

-In truth, the ordinance of a Sabbath, to be kept holy to the Lord, is of

-the same age and antiquity with the creation of the world itself.  It was

-not first established amongst the Jews; it was only renewed and

-re-established amongst _them_, when they themselves, like the heathens,

-had forgotten, or neglected it.  It was established as early as with

-Adam, the first man, even in Paradise; and, therefore, all the sons of

-Adam—that is, the whole race of mankind, and not the Jews only, are

-equally bound to keep it.  By proclaiming it to the Jews, as He did, God

-shows to us how awfully we ought to think of it; but all the nations of

-the world, which existed before, were bound by it before; and all which

-have existed since, and exist now, _have_ been, and _are_, bound by it,

-in consequence of their common descent from Adam, to whom it was declared

-in the beginning, and made a law to his whole posterity for ever.

-

-Nevertheless, if God himself had said nothing about it, it would have

-been the duty of man, the rational creature of God, and indebted to God

-for so many blessings—for so many noble powers and faculties, to have set

-apart some portion of the time which God gave him to the especial honour

-of the bountiful Giver—to have employed that time solely in thanking him

-for his precious gifts and his gracious providence—in meditating upon his

-glorious perfections and his marvellous works—and in serving and

-worshipping him by all other means, with such peculiar, extraordinary

-tokens of love, and gratitude, and veneration, as would not have been

-possible, or not suitable, at every time, and in every place; but only at

-the appointed time, and in some appointed place.

-

-This, I say, would have been the duty of man, if left entirely to the use

-of his own reason.  But no individual _could_ have determined for

-himself, and still less were all men likely to agree with each other,

-what the portion of time to be set apart for this purpose should be; how

-much the beneficent Author of their being, and of all their enjoyments,

-would expect of them to consecrate to him; and how often the consecrated

-time should return, so as to please God, and draw down from above his

-further blessings upon them.

-

-This, then, which _we_ should have been quite unable to decide for

-ourselves, God has decided for us.  He has himself, in his infinite

-wisdom, determined what is fit and proper both for _us_ and for _him_.

-He has not put us under the necessity of reasoning upon so important a

-matter at all; from the very beginning He appointed it for an everlasting

-law, that the portion of time to be dedicated to his especial service and

-worship should be one day out of every seven days: that six successive

-days should be _ours_ for labour of body and of mind, and for all the

-needful business of this present life; that the seventh day should be

-_his_, for a holy rest unto the Lord—for celebrating his wondrous

-works—and for a more quiet, undisturbed consideration of our own immortal

-concerns, and all the spiritual business of the life which is to come

-hereafter.

-

-But the seventh day, then, if we will use it thus, is _ours_ as well as

-_his_; it is _ours_ more than all the six which go before: it is _ours_

-in its own sublime, peculiar sense, to give us a foretaste of eternity by

-withdrawing us from temporal things; in short, it is one of the best

-gifts of God to man.  O taste and see how gracious the Lord is!  The

-Sabbath is to his own glory; but what would man be without it?  The most

-wretched of beings in every way; worn out before his usual allotted time

-with unintermitted toils; brought down to the grave by a premature old

-age and decay; and, what is still worse for him, with diminished hopes of

-happiness in another and a better world.  The Sabbath, thanks be to God!

-brings with it, if we will, a sweet, a tranquil, a refreshing rest: it

-repairs and renews the languishing, the broken powers of body and of

-mind; it sends us forth again to our duties on the following day with new

-strength, and a new spirit, more adequate to the performance of them;

-cheerfulness sits upon our brow, instead of a perpetual gloom; health,

-instead of the sad hue of a thousand maladies, which never-ending,

-never-pausing labour must have necessarily produced.  And if the Sabbath

-has been spent as God intends that it should be spent, no small advance

-has been made towards some happy mansion in our eternal abode.  We have

-heard, we have read, we have thought much about our blessed

-Redeemer—about our own salvation—about the bliss and glory of heaven.  We

-have put ourselves into every way, private and public, of receiving every

-grace of which we stand in need, and which God, through Christ, has

-promised to bestow.  We have prayed more at home than the business of the

-world will permit us to do on any other day; we have assembled in the

-church, as often as the church was open, to receive the mercies to which

-we are entitled, by God’s gift, only as we are members of the church; we

-have confessed our sins there with bended knees and a penitent heart; we

-have said with heartfelt thankfulness, “Amen,” to the covenanted pardon

-of God announced by the minister of Christ; we have partaken of all the

-divine ordinances blameless; if the holy table was decked, we have

-feasted upon the heavenly banquet of our great Saviour’s body and blood.

-These have been the holy deeds of the well-spent day; and holy deeds like

-these will qualify us for the rewards of eternity, if, under the

-continued influence of the Holy Spirit, encouraging, strengthening, and

-sanctifying us, we persevere unshaken in the same course to the end.  The

-Sabbath-day, then, is ours more especially; God, in consecrating and

-hallowing it to himself, has done so to _our_ present and eternal profit.

-By means of it we perform the better all the business of men, all the

-business of Christians, all the business of those who aspire to heaven.

-

-Now, there can be no doubt, but that God, being infinitely wise, and also

-most intimately acquainted with the peculiar wants and infirmities, and

-with the whole nature of man, whom he himself created, and upon whom he

-bestowed what nature he pleased, foreknew, and therefore decided from the

-very first, that one-seventh of man’s time was _necessary_ to be, and

-consequently _should_ be, released from labour, and devoted to a holy

-rest.  But the way which he took to show this to _us_, and to give us, at

-the same time, an awful and striking sense of it, is perhaps one of the

-most wonderful instances of all the wonders of his providential care of

-us.  He himself, in his mighty work of the creation of this world, tasked

-himself to a six-days’ labour, and rested on the seventh day, in order

-that man, following _his_ example, might use the same proportion of

-labour and rest.

-

-And this He has told us in his holy word; He has not left it to _us_ to

-find it out by our own reason; He has informed us himself.  It had been

-easy for _him_, for Omnipotence, surely, to have made the world, and all

-the creatures that fill, diversify, and adorn it, in a single day; nay,

-in a single hour; yes, truly, in a single minute.  As He said, “let there

-be light, and there was light;” so He had only to say, “let there be a

-world,” and there would have been a world.  In a single instant of time,

-in the very twinkling of an eye, all the miracles of creation that are

-visible to _us_, and all that are invisible, beyond the ken even of our

-imagination, at the Divine fiat, at the simple sound of the omnific word,

-would have sprung into existence at once, and into all the well-being,

-order, and harmony, by which all things will consist, in the same beauty

-and perfection, unto the end.  But then there would have been nothing in

-such a proceeding for the moral instruction, or for the temporal and

-eternal benefit of men.  He set bounds, therefore, to his own boundless

-power; He reduced infinite down to finite; He controlled his own almighty

-energies, and ordered his work, a whole world, so as to finish it in six

-days; He knew that a seventh day of rest was needful for man; and,

-therefore, He bestowed it upon him as a merciful boon, secured to him

-indefeasibly for ever by the express pattern of his own doings, and by

-the positive command to copy that pattern throughout all ages.

-

-Now let us see, then, how we stand as Christians.  Do you think it

-likely, however, that so merciful a religion, as that of Christ, should

-take this merciful ordinance of the Sabbath from us?  Do you think it

-likely that the same God, who, under the law, ordained a Sabbath, even

-for the miserable brute creation, that the poor cattle might rest from

-their labours as well as their rich owners, should abolish it under the

-gospel?  Of all incredible things this would be the most incredible, that

-God should care so much for beasts, which perish, as to provide _them_ a

-temporary repose from bodily toil, and none for man, who has an immortal

-soul to be saved, or lost, for ever; after having redeemed him, too, by

-the most astonishing method of the sacrifice of his own beloved Son.  O

-they of little faith, who reason thus!  But, blessed be God! it is not

-so.  As Christians, we are still the posterity of Adam; and, if we

-partake, alas! of all the evils that sprung from Adam, at least we

-partake of this one benefit.  Sin has not deprived us of it, but made it

-the more necessary for us.  Again, as Christians, we are not indeed the

-posterity of Abraham, according to the flesh; and, therefore, we are not

-necessarily under any part of the law given to the Jews; except it might

-have pleased the Author and Finisher of our faith to adopt any part of it

-into his gospel.  But this he most clearly did with respect to the ten

-commandments, of which the hallowing of the Sabbath is one.  He fulfilled

-and abolished every thing ceremonial, which concerned the Jews only; he

-retained, and gave a new force and sanctity to every thing moral, which

-concerns all mankind; and, without doubt, it is in every view a moral

-duty, that the thing made should worship the great Maker, on solemn days,

-which shall often return—that they should return, as they do, on every

-seventh day, we owe to God’s gracious providence.  “The Sabbath,” as our

-Lord beautifully and mercifully said, “was made for man;” and,

-consequently, whilst man remains upon this earth, a stranger and a

-pilgrim, travelling along a weary, rugged road, towards some better

-country in the distant prospect before him, the Sabbath too remains; on

-the authority of our blessed Saviour it remains, to refresh us all on our

-journey; to support and comfort us under the fatigue of it; and to cheer

-us with the thought of the everlasting Sabbath in heaven, of which it is

-the type and the shadow.

-

-And this it does the more effectually, because _we_ Christians keep _our_

-Sabbath on our own Lord’s day.  The Jews keep _theirs_ on the day of

-their wonderful deliverance from bondage in Egypt; and very properly.

-But _their_ deliverance from bondage in Egypt was the type and shadow of

-_our_ grander deliverance from the bondage of sin and death; which

-deliverance was then most evidently and undeniably accomplished, when our

-Saviour triumphed openly over both, by rising from the grave, alive and

-victorious.  Well do we call the first day of the week, the revered day

-on which he did it, the Lord’s day; and well have all Christians ever

-since, assured of their redemption by his resurrection on that day,

-consecrated and hallowed it for _their_ Sabbath for ever.  So that now

-all the reasons which could ever have operated amongst mankind for the

-keeping of a Sabbath, and still more reasons, operate upon _us_

-Christians.  We keep one day in seven in memory of the creation, as the

-rest of men should do; but we keep _that_ day, in preference to all

-others, which reminds us, more forcibly than any other, of our second

-creation; of our being begotten again to a new life; of our more

-interesting creation in true righteousness and holiness, after having

-fallen from the divine image of the holy Creator himself.  And, as _our_

-sacred religion is founded upon the religion of the Jews, and was

-shadowed out and prefigured by it, we are naturally led from the antitype

-to the type; from the thing prefigured and shadowed out to the thing

-prefiguring and shadowing it; and we look back with reverence to the

-Jewish Sabbath, so awfully and terrifically appointed, which commemorated

-on a chosen day a great temporal deliverance of _theirs_, prefiguring a

-still greater spiritual deliverance of _ours_.

-

-What shall we now say, then, my beloved, Christian brethren?  Shall we

-not remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy?  And how shall we keep it

-holy, if we employ ourselves on _that_, as on other days?  “The Sabbath

-was made for man;” but how was it made for him, if he labours, as on the

-other six days; if he pursues the same worldly objects, and torments

-himself with the same anxious cares; if he chooses this very day for his

-journies; for his pleasures; nay, even for his vices; and aggravates

-every sin by the abuse of _that_ which was intended to heal it; to give

-him time and repose for self-examination; and to enable him the better to

-make up the solemn account of every action, word, and thought, between

-himself and God?

-

-God blessed the Sabbath-day, and sanctified it for his own glory; but how

-does it promote his glory, whilst the generality of his faithless,

-ungrateful people, even in this Christian nation, never enter his sacred

-courts on that day, to give him the honour due unto his name in the

-presence of their fellow-men.  And “shall I not visit for this, saith the

-Lord?”  Much, indeed, very much is it to be feared, that he _will_ visit,

-with some terrible calamity too, and soon also, this country of ours, so

-dear to us all, so much our boast and pride, which he has hitherto

-guarded with an extraordinary protection, and exalted above other nations

-with unparalleled renown and power.  The breach, the dishonouring of his

-Sabbaths, he will keenly resent, and unsparingly avenge.  What he

-denounced to the Jews should perpetually sound in our ears—“Verily my

-Sabbaths shall ye keep for a perpetual covenant; they are a sign between

-_me_ and _you_ throughout your generations for ever; that ye may know

-that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.  They are holy unto you; every

-one that defileth them shall surely be put to death.”  It is a despite

-done to God himself, directly and personally; it is a scorn both of his

-majesty and his goodness, which cannot but provoke him to consume the

-guilty in his wrath.

-

-Already, indeed, do we feel his wrath in part executed upon us, and in

-part behold it with terror suspended over us.  The nightly incendiary,

-who prowls about in darkness (but God sees him) and destroys the fruits

-of the earth, which should have been for the food of man; the open

-rioter, who, in broad day-light, levels with the ground the temple of

-God, the marts of commerce, the mansions of the great, and puts to the

-hazard even the life of his beneficent neighbour; the wide-wasting

-pestilence, which, with havoc and death in its train, has reached the

-opposite shores, and now only waits the signal to cross the sea to ours;

-all these are the avenging emissaries of God; but the last more

-apparently; and I pray God, as King David did, that _we_ may fall into

-_his_ hands rather than into the hands of men—yet He, who stilleth the

-fury of the warring elements, can also still “the madness of the people.”

-

-But the great question for _you_, and which you should lay your hands

-upon your hearts, and answer conscientiously, is this; how much _you_

-yourselves, individually, have contributed to increase the mass of the

-national guilt in this particular, of which God is so jealous.  As my

-sacred office compels me to speak the truth, and forbids every kind of

-flattery and dissimulation; as I cannot otherwise be useful to any of

-you, or assist you in working out your salvation, but by bearing witness

-to the truth; as I am, moreover, now about to leave you for a while, and

-therefore wish to give you some departing, farewell advice of the most

-momentous importance; I say it, I confess, with deep sorrow, and with a

-painful alarm on _your_ account, that, even in this otherwise

-well-disposed and well-ordered parish, there is a too evident, and a too

-great, neglect of the Sabbath.  In the true spirit of pastoral affection,

-but in the plain, manly, authoritative language of an Apostle, I say, “I

-cannot praise you in this.”

-

-Alas! alas! what correct idea, or right devout feeling of God’s sabbaths,

-can _they_ have, who are always absent from God’s house, and who,

-perhaps, profane these sacred days, besides, by drunkenness, or gaming,

-or some other revelry?  None, undoubtedly.  But all _our_ remonstrances

-from this sacred place must, of necessity, be useless to _them_; they

-need them most, but are never present to hear them.  Of the rest, how few

-come here with so much regularity as to show that it is an essential part

-of their system of life—an established principle of conduct never to be

-departed from but upon the most urgent, extraordinary occasions!  And how

-will God judge of _them_, who think that they do sufficient honour to his

-Sabbath by coming once only, and forget that God may construe their

-coming but once as a proud assumption on their parts, that they want no

-more of his sanctifying grace than once a day may be likely to bestow!

-If the help of the Holy Spirit alone can fit them for salvation, and this

-help is chiefly given by the ministry of the church, how can they be

-perfectly satisfied with themselves, and think that they have done

-enough, when they neglect, once a day, an opportunity of partaking of the

-spirit, which the church is the instrument to convey?  I am not unaware

-of the circumstances of this parish, which render more sometimes

-impossible; but how few, how very few, perhaps two or three individuals,

-lament those circumstances, and the consequent loss of additional means

-of grace!

-

-But how will God judge even of the most exemplary in any congregation,

-who never forsake his house, either for pleasure, or for business, or for

-any of those plausible reasons by which men are too willing to delude

-themselves to their own ruin; if they spend the rest of the day,

-nevertheless, as they spend the other days of the week, and do not

-remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy throughout; if they do not devote

-the whole of it with a sober, religious awe to God; if they do not send

-their children and servants to church with the same punctuality as they

-go themselves; if they do not shun all the resorts of sensuality and

-gaiety abroad, or admit such inmates at home; if they do not study the

-Holy Scriptures, and put aside all other books but such as may tend to

-build them up in faith and piety; and, in short, if they do not live on

-this one day, in conformity with the sacred nature of the day, so

-uniformly and so universally, as to throw a sanctity around the lawful

-business and the lawful pleasures of every other day, and gradually to

-make their whole life truly Christian, truly divine, and fit, indeed, for

-heaven.

-

-Now, if they do not accomplish all this, whatever else they do, they fall

-short of a due observance of the Sabbath; and who is there, even amongst

-the most exemplary, alas! who ever thinks of accomplishing so much?

-Alas, alas! who is there amongst any of us, who, in some way or other,

-does not absolutely break the Sabbath, or even profane it?  And what

-wonder, then, that there should be so much looseness, licentiousness, and

-depravity of manners in our nation; and that so many evils assail us, so

-many impend over our heads, and threaten us with some mighty ruin?

-Sabbath-breaking has led to the temporal and eternal ruin of thousand and

-tens of thousands; it cannot but lead to the deeper corruption of all; to

-the gradual undermining and ultimate extinction of all religious

-principle in the heart of man.  When a people cast off their respect for

-God’s Sabbaths, they are prepared to run the full career of irreligion,

-and of profligacy, and of all the atrocities which scourge and afflict

-mankind.

-

-There are persons in this congregation old enough to remember, as I do, a

-whole powerful nation, our nearest neighbours, casting it off, as it

-appeared, with one consent, and, by cruelties almost unheard of before,

-compelling their spiritual pastors and ministers to fly into exile;

-neither religion, nor the semblance of religion being tolerated any

-longer among them.  And what was the issue?  This amazing apostacy was

-followed immediately by such deeds of horror, by such tragical excesses,

-as will never be blotted out of the annals of time.  But the same impious

-means have been industriously used to produce the same subversion of

-principle here amongst _us_ at home; and, God knows, they have but too

-well succeeded with too many; so that we can scarcely exult any longer

-with our former honourable pride, that our country is as renowned for

-religion, for piety and virtue, for good order and submission to

-authority, and for the deep abhorrence of all atrocities, as she is for

-freedom, for wealth, for victory, and for power.

-

-Finally, then, in bidding you farewell, I earnestly beseech you all, and

-through _you_ I beseech the rest who are under my spiritual charge, to

-ponder most deeply and seriously, and to lay to heart also, what God

-himself spoke with such terrible signs of his power, and what his divine

-finger wrote for an everlasting memorial; what He decreed in the

-beginning of time when He rested from his marvellous works, and

-pronounced them good; and what our blessed Saviour, the fulfiller of all

-righteousness, obeyed in the true spirit of the command, and set the

-pattern to every succeeding generation of Christians; I earnestly beseech

-you all to “remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy.”  And let the

-first proof of your remembrance of it, and the first act of keeping it

-holy, be your constant attendance here in God’s house—a practice which

-will lead you on step by step to every other good work.  Let your

-ministers lament no more the thin attendance of their hearers, in the

-afternoons especially.  Come as often as you may, you will scarcely

-return without being the better and the wiser for it.  I speak not of

-worldly wisdom, but of the wisdom which will save your souls.  What

-blessing is there, of which you stand in need?  Come here, and pray for

-it in concert with the whole assembly—your united prayers, with one mind

-and heart, ascending to God, will fetch every blessing down.  Is there

-any blessing of which you feel the enjoyment?  Come here, and thank God

-for it before your fellow-men.  Are you ignorant of any of the great

-gospel-doctrines which are necessary to be known?  Come here, and they

-will be explained, each in its proper season, and you will be instructed

-to have a due and awful sense of their importance.  Have you been seduced

-into sin; do your devotions become languid; do you neglect any duty; is

-your benevolence cold?  Come to God’s house, and you will hear

-discourses, it is to be hoped, as well as striking passages of scripture,

-which will awaken and arouse you; keep heaven always in your sight; fill

-you with heavenly affections; and prepare you to dwell in some heavenly

-mansion with the blessed saints of God.  _We_, your ministers, I trust,

-amidst all the discouragements with which we are surrounded, the entire

-absence of so many, the apparent lukewarmness of others, preach,

-nevertheless, with the same zeal as if we preached to multitudes athirst

-for the word of God, and do not abate one tittle in our fervent desire

-for _your_ everlasting salvation.  The more, indeed, men neglect

-themselves, the more should the ministers of Christ care for them, and

-stir up every faculty which they have to rescue them from their dream of

-false security.  Let not this labour of _ours_ be in vain!  Labour for

-yourselves as _we_ labour for you; all of us alike, however, trusting to

-a greater strength than our own.  And I pray God, that, under the

-influence of the Divine strength, and guided by his Holy Spirit, _you_

-may become the crown of _our_ labours, and enable us to give up the

-account of our stewardship over you with joy.

-

-                                * * * * *

-

-                                 THE END.

-

-                                * * * * *

-

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-                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.

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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 67021 ***
+
+Transcribed from the 1831 Roake and Varty edition by David Price.  Many
+thanks to the British Library for making their copy available.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               THE SABBATH;
+                                    A
+                                 SERMON.
+
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                    BY
+                       THE REV. WILLIAM WOOD, B.D.
+                 RECTOR OF COULSDON, AND VICAR OF FULHAM.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                       ROAKE AND VARTY, 31, STRAND.
+                                  1831.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                  TO THE
+                         INHABITANTS OF COULSDON,
+                              THE FOLLOWING
+                                 SERMON,
+          INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREACHED IN THEIR CHURCH IN THE
+                        AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 23rd,
+                       IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
+                    AND PRINTED FOR THEIR INSTRUCTION,
+                        BY THEIR FAITHFUL PASTOR.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE TO THE READER.
+
+
+THE Sermon here presented to the Public is below all criticism.  It makes
+no pretensions to novelty, or to merit of any kind; it is only one of the
+thousands which are preached every week by men, who, in the midst of evil
+report, labour, nevertheless, with an anxious zeal for the salvation of
+souls.  It was composed in haste, with no intention of printing it, for a
+sequestered parish, where much remains of ancient simplicity; but where
+the author lamented to see, as he thought, a neglect of public worship,
+not occasioned by infidelity, or by profligacy, as in great towns, but by
+ignorance of the subject, or thoughtlessness of conduct.
+
+The inclemency of the weather having prevented him from preaching it at
+the time intended, and no other opportunity being likely to occur for
+many months, he determined to print it at once for the use of his
+parishioners; but some other little tracts of his, with the same limited
+object, having been called for by persons desirous of doing good in their
+several spheres, and on a larger scale, he thinks it possible that they
+may wish to have _this_ also, and therefore he publishes it.
+
+The subject of the sermon, in these days especially, is a momentous one.
+May God bless it, for the sake of the subject, to his own glory, and to
+the benefit of men!  The author has no other wish.
+
+
+
+
+THE SABBATH.
+
+
+                                 Exod. xx. 8.
+
+               “_Remember the Sabbath-day_, _to keep it holy_.”
+
+THIS command, to remember the Sabbath-day, in order to keep it holy, was
+given by Almighty God himself to the Jews.  I say, it was given by
+himself.  He did not order any prophet, or other holy man, to give it in
+_his_ name; He gave it himself in his own person; He spoke it aloud, in
+the ears of all the people, with his own voice.  And this voice, as we
+are told, was so terrible, that the hearers of it were smitten with
+intolerable fear and trembling, and began to entreat, with the most
+humble and urgent supplications, that God would vouchsafe, in future, to
+make known his will to them by the voice of Moses rather than by his own.
+
+No doubt, _we_ also, who are assembled here, should think it a very awful
+thing, and should tremble in our whole frame, if we were to hear the
+voice of the great God of heaven and earth speaking to us from a cloud,
+or from a mountain-top; and we should naturally desire to hear the
+gentler, the more familiar voice of a man, like one of ourselves; to whom
+also we might listen, and with whom we might talk and reason, without any
+dismay, or even alarm.  However, in this case, we may presume, the mighty
+terror of God’s voice was increased tenfold to those who heard it, by the
+accompanying hoarse blast of the brazen trumpet, waxing louder and
+louder; by the continual crash of tremendous thunderings; and by the red,
+fiery flashes of direful lightnings, which burst around them, whilst God
+was speaking, out of the thick, dark smoke that covered the top of the
+mountain “where God was;” the whole mountain itself, too, shook from its
+very foundations, and seemed to be all in a flame, burning with fire.
+
+Now, what was the reason of this unusual manifestation of the Divine
+Majesty, but that God wished to give the command in the most striking,
+impressive manner, so that it should never be forgotten by _that_
+generation of men; and to show them a terrific instance of his power
+also, that they might tremble at the very thought of disobeying him, and
+of profaning, or neglecting, the Sabbath-day, which he _thus_ commanded
+them to remember, to keep it holy.
+
+But this was not all.  God was not satisfied that He had done enough,
+even when He had uttered this command with his own voice, and with all
+that show of his terrible power and majesty; He wrote it also on a tablet
+of stone with his own finger; and He ordered the sacred tablet to be
+preserved with the utmost care, in the most sacred place—in the very ark
+where his whole covenant with his chosen people was preserved also.  One
+generation alone could have heard that voice, and have seen those
+miraculous signs; but many succeeding generations, to remote times, might
+see the tablet of stone, and read the writing of God’s finger, and learn
+the Divine will for themselves with a more reverential awe; whilst every
+other supernatural circumstance of the history was taught by one
+generation to another, and was handed down from father to son through
+_all_ generations.
+
+You may readily now understand, then, of what vast importance this
+command must be in the eye of God, and how necessary the observance of it
+is for the welfare and happiness of man.  For, if this were not so—if it
+made no difference, either to God’s own glory, or to _our_ welfare and
+happiness, whether the Sabbath-day were remembered to keep it holy or
+not; it is difficult to conceive that God should have taken so much
+pains, as it were, to establish a Sabbath-day at all; by descending, as
+He did, from heaven upon the Mount, in the midst of lightnings, and
+thunderings, and an earthquake; by proclaiming it to the astonished,
+trembling multitude with his own voice; by writing it, besides, with his
+own finger; and by ordering it to be laid up in the ark as a divine
+ordinance for ever.
+
+But how does all this apply to other nations, and to _us_, of _this_
+nation, and of _this_ age?  God gave the command in this miraculous
+manner to the Jews only; how do _we_ know that He intended that _we_, and
+all mankind, should observe it to the end of time?
+
+This is a very reasonable question, and it may have a very satisfactory
+answer; namely, that the same causes for a Sabbath-day, and for
+remembering it, to keep it holy for ever, concern alike all the rest of
+mankind as well as the Jews; and that _we_ Christians, above others, have
+especial cause for hallowing our own Sabbath-day; such as neither the
+Jews, nor the rest of mankind, until they become Christians, _can_ have
+for hallowing their’s.  If it were _their_ bounden duty to hallow
+Saturday, or any other day, much more is it _ours_ to hallow Sunday.
+
+In truth, the ordinance of a Sabbath, to be kept holy to the Lord, is of
+the same age and antiquity with the creation of the world itself.  It was
+not first established amongst the Jews; it was only renewed and
+re-established amongst _them_, when they themselves, like the heathens,
+had forgotten, or neglected it.  It was established as early as with
+Adam, the first man, even in Paradise; and, therefore, all the sons of
+Adam—that is, the whole race of mankind, and not the Jews only, are
+equally bound to keep it.  By proclaiming it to the Jews, as He did, God
+shows to us how awfully we ought to think of it; but all the nations of
+the world, which existed before, were bound by it before; and all which
+have existed since, and exist now, _have_ been, and _are_, bound by it,
+in consequence of their common descent from Adam, to whom it was declared
+in the beginning, and made a law to his whole posterity for ever.
+
+Nevertheless, if God himself had said nothing about it, it would have
+been the duty of man, the rational creature of God, and indebted to God
+for so many blessings—for so many noble powers and faculties, to have set
+apart some portion of the time which God gave him to the especial honour
+of the bountiful Giver—to have employed that time solely in thanking him
+for his precious gifts and his gracious providence—in meditating upon his
+glorious perfections and his marvellous works—and in serving and
+worshipping him by all other means, with such peculiar, extraordinary
+tokens of love, and gratitude, and veneration, as would not have been
+possible, or not suitable, at every time, and in every place; but only at
+the appointed time, and in some appointed place.
+
+This, I say, would have been the duty of man, if left entirely to the use
+of his own reason.  But no individual _could_ have determined for
+himself, and still less were all men likely to agree with each other,
+what the portion of time to be set apart for this purpose should be; how
+much the beneficent Author of their being, and of all their enjoyments,
+would expect of them to consecrate to him; and how often the consecrated
+time should return, so as to please God, and draw down from above his
+further blessings upon them.
+
+This, then, which _we_ should have been quite unable to decide for
+ourselves, God has decided for us.  He has himself, in his infinite
+wisdom, determined what is fit and proper both for _us_ and for _him_.
+He has not put us under the necessity of reasoning upon so important a
+matter at all; from the very beginning He appointed it for an everlasting
+law, that the portion of time to be dedicated to his especial service and
+worship should be one day out of every seven days: that six successive
+days should be _ours_ for labour of body and of mind, and for all the
+needful business of this present life; that the seventh day should be
+_his_, for a holy rest unto the Lord—for celebrating his wondrous
+works—and for a more quiet, undisturbed consideration of our own immortal
+concerns, and all the spiritual business of the life which is to come
+hereafter.
+
+But the seventh day, then, if we will use it thus, is _ours_ as well as
+_his_; it is _ours_ more than all the six which go before: it is _ours_
+in its own sublime, peculiar sense, to give us a foretaste of eternity by
+withdrawing us from temporal things; in short, it is one of the best
+gifts of God to man.  O taste and see how gracious the Lord is!  The
+Sabbath is to his own glory; but what would man be without it?  The most
+wretched of beings in every way; worn out before his usual allotted time
+with unintermitted toils; brought down to the grave by a premature old
+age and decay; and, what is still worse for him, with diminished hopes of
+happiness in another and a better world.  The Sabbath, thanks be to God!
+brings with it, if we will, a sweet, a tranquil, a refreshing rest: it
+repairs and renews the languishing, the broken powers of body and of
+mind; it sends us forth again to our duties on the following day with new
+strength, and a new spirit, more adequate to the performance of them;
+cheerfulness sits upon our brow, instead of a perpetual gloom; health,
+instead of the sad hue of a thousand maladies, which never-ending,
+never-pausing labour must have necessarily produced.  And if the Sabbath
+has been spent as God intends that it should be spent, no small advance
+has been made towards some happy mansion in our eternal abode.  We have
+heard, we have read, we have thought much about our blessed
+Redeemer—about our own salvation—about the bliss and glory of heaven.  We
+have put ourselves into every way, private and public, of receiving every
+grace of which we stand in need, and which God, through Christ, has
+promised to bestow.  We have prayed more at home than the business of the
+world will permit us to do on any other day; we have assembled in the
+church, as often as the church was open, to receive the mercies to which
+we are entitled, by God’s gift, only as we are members of the church; we
+have confessed our sins there with bended knees and a penitent heart; we
+have said with heartfelt thankfulness, “Amen,” to the covenanted pardon
+of God announced by the minister of Christ; we have partaken of all the
+divine ordinances blameless; if the holy table was decked, we have
+feasted upon the heavenly banquet of our great Saviour’s body and blood.
+These have been the holy deeds of the well-spent day; and holy deeds like
+these will qualify us for the rewards of eternity, if, under the
+continued influence of the Holy Spirit, encouraging, strengthening, and
+sanctifying us, we persevere unshaken in the same course to the end.  The
+Sabbath-day, then, is ours more especially; God, in consecrating and
+hallowing it to himself, has done so to _our_ present and eternal profit.
+By means of it we perform the better all the business of men, all the
+business of Christians, all the business of those who aspire to heaven.
+
+Now, there can be no doubt, but that God, being infinitely wise, and also
+most intimately acquainted with the peculiar wants and infirmities, and
+with the whole nature of man, whom he himself created, and upon whom he
+bestowed what nature he pleased, foreknew, and therefore decided from the
+very first, that one-seventh of man’s time was _necessary_ to be, and
+consequently _should_ be, released from labour, and devoted to a holy
+rest.  But the way which he took to show this to _us_, and to give us, at
+the same time, an awful and striking sense of it, is perhaps one of the
+most wonderful instances of all the wonders of his providential care of
+us.  He himself, in his mighty work of the creation of this world, tasked
+himself to a six-days’ labour, and rested on the seventh day, in order
+that man, following _his_ example, might use the same proportion of
+labour and rest.
+
+And this He has told us in his holy word; He has not left it to _us_ to
+find it out by our own reason; He has informed us himself.  It had been
+easy for _him_, for Omnipotence, surely, to have made the world, and all
+the creatures that fill, diversify, and adorn it, in a single day; nay,
+in a single hour; yes, truly, in a single minute.  As He said, “let there
+be light, and there was light;” so He had only to say, “let there be a
+world,” and there would have been a world.  In a single instant of time,
+in the very twinkling of an eye, all the miracles of creation that are
+visible to _us_, and all that are invisible, beyond the ken even of our
+imagination, at the Divine fiat, at the simple sound of the omnific word,
+would have sprung into existence at once, and into all the well-being,
+order, and harmony, by which all things will consist, in the same beauty
+and perfection, unto the end.  But then there would have been nothing in
+such a proceeding for the moral instruction, or for the temporal and
+eternal benefit of men.  He set bounds, therefore, to his own boundless
+power; He reduced infinite down to finite; He controlled his own almighty
+energies, and ordered his work, a whole world, so as to finish it in six
+days; He knew that a seventh day of rest was needful for man; and,
+therefore, He bestowed it upon him as a merciful boon, secured to him
+indefeasibly for ever by the express pattern of his own doings, and by
+the positive command to copy that pattern throughout all ages.
+
+Now let us see, then, how we stand as Christians.  Do you think it
+likely, however, that so merciful a religion, as that of Christ, should
+take this merciful ordinance of the Sabbath from us?  Do you think it
+likely that the same God, who, under the law, ordained a Sabbath, even
+for the miserable brute creation, that the poor cattle might rest from
+their labours as well as their rich owners, should abolish it under the
+gospel?  Of all incredible things this would be the most incredible, that
+God should care so much for beasts, which perish, as to provide _them_ a
+temporary repose from bodily toil, and none for man, who has an immortal
+soul to be saved, or lost, for ever; after having redeemed him, too, by
+the most astonishing method of the sacrifice of his own beloved Son.  O
+they of little faith, who reason thus!  But, blessed be God! it is not
+so.  As Christians, we are still the posterity of Adam; and, if we
+partake, alas! of all the evils that sprung from Adam, at least we
+partake of this one benefit.  Sin has not deprived us of it, but made it
+the more necessary for us.  Again, as Christians, we are not indeed the
+posterity of Abraham, according to the flesh; and, therefore, we are not
+necessarily under any part of the law given to the Jews; except it might
+have pleased the Author and Finisher of our faith to adopt any part of it
+into his gospel.  But this he most clearly did with respect to the ten
+commandments, of which the hallowing of the Sabbath is one.  He fulfilled
+and abolished every thing ceremonial, which concerned the Jews only; he
+retained, and gave a new force and sanctity to every thing moral, which
+concerns all mankind; and, without doubt, it is in every view a moral
+duty, that the thing made should worship the great Maker, on solemn days,
+which shall often return—that they should return, as they do, on every
+seventh day, we owe to God’s gracious providence.  “The Sabbath,” as our
+Lord beautifully and mercifully said, “was made for man;” and,
+consequently, whilst man remains upon this earth, a stranger and a
+pilgrim, travelling along a weary, rugged road, towards some better
+country in the distant prospect before him, the Sabbath too remains; on
+the authority of our blessed Saviour it remains, to refresh us all on our
+journey; to support and comfort us under the fatigue of it; and to cheer
+us with the thought of the everlasting Sabbath in heaven, of which it is
+the type and the shadow.
+
+And this it does the more effectually, because _we_ Christians keep _our_
+Sabbath on our own Lord’s day.  The Jews keep _theirs_ on the day of
+their wonderful deliverance from bondage in Egypt; and very properly.
+But _their_ deliverance from bondage in Egypt was the type and shadow of
+_our_ grander deliverance from the bondage of sin and death; which
+deliverance was then most evidently and undeniably accomplished, when our
+Saviour triumphed openly over both, by rising from the grave, alive and
+victorious.  Well do we call the first day of the week, the revered day
+on which he did it, the Lord’s day; and well have all Christians ever
+since, assured of their redemption by his resurrection on that day,
+consecrated and hallowed it for _their_ Sabbath for ever.  So that now
+all the reasons which could ever have operated amongst mankind for the
+keeping of a Sabbath, and still more reasons, operate upon _us_
+Christians.  We keep one day in seven in memory of the creation, as the
+rest of men should do; but we keep _that_ day, in preference to all
+others, which reminds us, more forcibly than any other, of our second
+creation; of our being begotten again to a new life; of our more
+interesting creation in true righteousness and holiness, after having
+fallen from the divine image of the holy Creator himself.  And, as _our_
+sacred religion is founded upon the religion of the Jews, and was
+shadowed out and prefigured by it, we are naturally led from the antitype
+to the type; from the thing prefigured and shadowed out to the thing
+prefiguring and shadowing it; and we look back with reverence to the
+Jewish Sabbath, so awfully and terrifically appointed, which commemorated
+on a chosen day a great temporal deliverance of _theirs_, prefiguring a
+still greater spiritual deliverance of _ours_.
+
+What shall we now say, then, my beloved, Christian brethren?  Shall we
+not remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy?  And how shall we keep it
+holy, if we employ ourselves on _that_, as on other days?  “The Sabbath
+was made for man;” but how was it made for him, if he labours, as on the
+other six days; if he pursues the same worldly objects, and torments
+himself with the same anxious cares; if he chooses this very day for his
+journies; for his pleasures; nay, even for his vices; and aggravates
+every sin by the abuse of _that_ which was intended to heal it; to give
+him time and repose for self-examination; and to enable him the better to
+make up the solemn account of every action, word, and thought, between
+himself and God?
+
+God blessed the Sabbath-day, and sanctified it for his own glory; but how
+does it promote his glory, whilst the generality of his faithless,
+ungrateful people, even in this Christian nation, never enter his sacred
+courts on that day, to give him the honour due unto his name in the
+presence of their fellow-men.  And “shall I not visit for this, saith the
+Lord?”  Much, indeed, very much is it to be feared, that he _will_ visit,
+with some terrible calamity too, and soon also, this country of ours, so
+dear to us all, so much our boast and pride, which he has hitherto
+guarded with an extraordinary protection, and exalted above other nations
+with unparalleled renown and power.  The breach, the dishonouring of his
+Sabbaths, he will keenly resent, and unsparingly avenge.  What he
+denounced to the Jews should perpetually sound in our ears—“Verily my
+Sabbaths shall ye keep for a perpetual covenant; they are a sign between
+_me_ and _you_ throughout your generations for ever; that ye may know
+that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.  They are holy unto you; every
+one that defileth them shall surely be put to death.”  It is a despite
+done to God himself, directly and personally; it is a scorn both of his
+majesty and his goodness, which cannot but provoke him to consume the
+guilty in his wrath.
+
+Already, indeed, do we feel his wrath in part executed upon us, and in
+part behold it with terror suspended over us.  The nightly incendiary,
+who prowls about in darkness (but God sees him) and destroys the fruits
+of the earth, which should have been for the food of man; the open
+rioter, who, in broad day-light, levels with the ground the temple of
+God, the marts of commerce, the mansions of the great, and puts to the
+hazard even the life of his beneficent neighbour; the wide-wasting
+pestilence, which, with havoc and death in its train, has reached the
+opposite shores, and now only waits the signal to cross the sea to ours;
+all these are the avenging emissaries of God; but the last more
+apparently; and I pray God, as King David did, that _we_ may fall into
+_his_ hands rather than into the hands of men—yet He, who stilleth the
+fury of the warring elements, can also still “the madness of the people.”
+
+But the great question for _you_, and which you should lay your hands
+upon your hearts, and answer conscientiously, is this; how much _you_
+yourselves, individually, have contributed to increase the mass of the
+national guilt in this particular, of which God is so jealous.  As my
+sacred office compels me to speak the truth, and forbids every kind of
+flattery and dissimulation; as I cannot otherwise be useful to any of
+you, or assist you in working out your salvation, but by bearing witness
+to the truth; as I am, moreover, now about to leave you for a while, and
+therefore wish to give you some departing, farewell advice of the most
+momentous importance; I say it, I confess, with deep sorrow, and with a
+painful alarm on _your_ account, that, even in this otherwise
+well-disposed and well-ordered parish, there is a too evident, and a too
+great, neglect of the Sabbath.  In the true spirit of pastoral affection,
+but in the plain, manly, authoritative language of an Apostle, I say, “I
+cannot praise you in this.”
+
+Alas! alas! what correct idea, or right devout feeling of God’s sabbaths,
+can _they_ have, who are always absent from God’s house, and who,
+perhaps, profane these sacred days, besides, by drunkenness, or gaming,
+or some other revelry?  None, undoubtedly.  But all _our_ remonstrances
+from this sacred place must, of necessity, be useless to _them_; they
+need them most, but are never present to hear them.  Of the rest, how few
+come here with so much regularity as to show that it is an essential part
+of their system of life—an established principle of conduct never to be
+departed from but upon the most urgent, extraordinary occasions!  And how
+will God judge of _them_, who think that they do sufficient honour to his
+Sabbath by coming once only, and forget that God may construe their
+coming but once as a proud assumption on their parts, that they want no
+more of his sanctifying grace than once a day may be likely to bestow!
+If the help of the Holy Spirit alone can fit them for salvation, and this
+help is chiefly given by the ministry of the church, how can they be
+perfectly satisfied with themselves, and think that they have done
+enough, when they neglect, once a day, an opportunity of partaking of the
+spirit, which the church is the instrument to convey?  I am not unaware
+of the circumstances of this parish, which render more sometimes
+impossible; but how few, how very few, perhaps two or three individuals,
+lament those circumstances, and the consequent loss of additional means
+of grace!
+
+But how will God judge even of the most exemplary in any congregation,
+who never forsake his house, either for pleasure, or for business, or for
+any of those plausible reasons by which men are too willing to delude
+themselves to their own ruin; if they spend the rest of the day,
+nevertheless, as they spend the other days of the week, and do not
+remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy throughout; if they do not devote
+the whole of it with a sober, religious awe to God; if they do not send
+their children and servants to church with the same punctuality as they
+go themselves; if they do not shun all the resorts of sensuality and
+gaiety abroad, or admit such inmates at home; if they do not study the
+Holy Scriptures, and put aside all other books but such as may tend to
+build them up in faith and piety; and, in short, if they do not live on
+this one day, in conformity with the sacred nature of the day, so
+uniformly and so universally, as to throw a sanctity around the lawful
+business and the lawful pleasures of every other day, and gradually to
+make their whole life truly Christian, truly divine, and fit, indeed, for
+heaven.
+
+Now, if they do not accomplish all this, whatever else they do, they fall
+short of a due observance of the Sabbath; and who is there, even amongst
+the most exemplary, alas! who ever thinks of accomplishing so much?
+Alas, alas! who is there amongst any of us, who, in some way or other,
+does not absolutely break the Sabbath, or even profane it?  And what
+wonder, then, that there should be so much looseness, licentiousness, and
+depravity of manners in our nation; and that so many evils assail us, so
+many impend over our heads, and threaten us with some mighty ruin?
+Sabbath-breaking has led to the temporal and eternal ruin of thousand and
+tens of thousands; it cannot but lead to the deeper corruption of all; to
+the gradual undermining and ultimate extinction of all religious
+principle in the heart of man.  When a people cast off their respect for
+God’s Sabbaths, they are prepared to run the full career of irreligion,
+and of profligacy, and of all the atrocities which scourge and afflict
+mankind.
+
+There are persons in this congregation old enough to remember, as I do, a
+whole powerful nation, our nearest neighbours, casting it off, as it
+appeared, with one consent, and, by cruelties almost unheard of before,
+compelling their spiritual pastors and ministers to fly into exile;
+neither religion, nor the semblance of religion being tolerated any
+longer among them.  And what was the issue?  This amazing apostacy was
+followed immediately by such deeds of horror, by such tragical excesses,
+as will never be blotted out of the annals of time.  But the same impious
+means have been industriously used to produce the same subversion of
+principle here amongst _us_ at home; and, God knows, they have but too
+well succeeded with too many; so that we can scarcely exult any longer
+with our former honourable pride, that our country is as renowned for
+religion, for piety and virtue, for good order and submission to
+authority, and for the deep abhorrence of all atrocities, as she is for
+freedom, for wealth, for victory, and for power.
+
+Finally, then, in bidding you farewell, I earnestly beseech you all, and
+through _you_ I beseech the rest who are under my spiritual charge, to
+ponder most deeply and seriously, and to lay to heart also, what God
+himself spoke with such terrible signs of his power, and what his divine
+finger wrote for an everlasting memorial; what He decreed in the
+beginning of time when He rested from his marvellous works, and
+pronounced them good; and what our blessed Saviour, the fulfiller of all
+righteousness, obeyed in the true spirit of the command, and set the
+pattern to every succeeding generation of Christians; I earnestly beseech
+you all to “remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy.”  And let the
+first proof of your remembrance of it, and the first act of keeping it
+holy, be your constant attendance here in God’s house—a practice which
+will lead you on step by step to every other good work.  Let your
+ministers lament no more the thin attendance of their hearers, in the
+afternoons especially.  Come as often as you may, you will scarcely
+return without being the better and the wiser for it.  I speak not of
+worldly wisdom, but of the wisdom which will save your souls.  What
+blessing is there, of which you stand in need?  Come here, and pray for
+it in concert with the whole assembly—your united prayers, with one mind
+and heart, ascending to God, will fetch every blessing down.  Is there
+any blessing of which you feel the enjoyment?  Come here, and thank God
+for it before your fellow-men.  Are you ignorant of any of the great
+gospel-doctrines which are necessary to be known?  Come here, and they
+will be explained, each in its proper season, and you will be instructed
+to have a due and awful sense of their importance.  Have you been seduced
+into sin; do your devotions become languid; do you neglect any duty; is
+your benevolence cold?  Come to God’s house, and you will hear
+discourses, it is to be hoped, as well as striking passages of scripture,
+which will awaken and arouse you; keep heaven always in your sight; fill
+you with heavenly affections; and prepare you to dwell in some heavenly
+mansion with the blessed saints of God.  _We_, your ministers, I trust,
+amidst all the discouragements with which we are surrounded, the entire
+absence of so many, the apparent lukewarmness of others, preach,
+nevertheless, with the same zeal as if we preached to multitudes athirst
+for the word of God, and do not abate one tittle in our fervent desire
+for _your_ everlasting salvation.  The more, indeed, men neglect
+themselves, the more should the ministers of Christ care for them, and
+stir up every faculty which they have to rescue them from their dream of
+false security.  Let not this labour of _ours_ be in vain!  Labour for
+yourselves as _we_ labour for you; all of us alike, however, trusting to
+a greater strength than our own.  And I pray God, that, under the
+influence of the Divine strength, and guided by his Holy Spirit, _you_
+may become the crown of _our_ labours, and enable us to give up the
+account of our stewardship over you with joy.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 THE END.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SABBATH: A SERMON***
+
+
+Transcribed from the 1831 Roake and Varty edition by David Price.  Many
+thanks to the British Library for making their copy available.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               THE SABBATH;
+                                    A
+                                 SERMON.
+
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                    BY
+                       THE REV. WILLIAM WOOD, B.D.
+                 RECTOR OF COULSDON, AND VICAR OF FULHAM.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                       ROAKE AND VARTY, 31, STRAND.
+                                  1831.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                  TO THE
+                         INHABITANTS OF COULSDON,
+                              THE FOLLOWING
+                                 SERMON,
+          INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREACHED IN THEIR CHURCH IN THE
+                        AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 23rd,
+                       IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
+                    AND PRINTED FOR THEIR INSTRUCTION,
+                        BY THEIR FAITHFUL PASTOR.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE TO THE READER.
+
+
+THE Sermon here presented to the Public is below all criticism.  It makes
+no pretensions to novelty, or to merit of any kind; it is only one of the
+thousands which are preached every week by men, who, in the midst of evil
+report, labour, nevertheless, with an anxious zeal for the salvation of
+souls.  It was composed in haste, with no intention of printing it, for a
+sequestered parish, where much remains of ancient simplicity; but where
+the author lamented to see, as he thought, a neglect of public worship,
+not occasioned by infidelity, or by profligacy, as in great towns, but by
+ignorance of the subject, or thoughtlessness of conduct.
+
+The inclemency of the weather having prevented him from preaching it at
+the time intended, and no other opportunity being likely to occur for
+many months, he determined to print it at once for the use of his
+parishioners; but some other little tracts of his, with the same limited
+object, having been called for by persons desirous of doing good in their
+several spheres, and on a larger scale, he thinks it possible that they
+may wish to have _this_ also, and therefore he publishes it.
+
+The subject of the sermon, in these days especially, is a momentous one.
+May God bless it, for the sake of the subject, to his own glory, and to
+the benefit of men!  The author has no other wish.
+
+
+
+
+THE SABBATH.
+
+
+                                 Exod. xx. 8.
+
+               “_Remember the Sabbath-day_, _to keep it holy_.”
+
+THIS command, to remember the Sabbath-day, in order to keep it holy, was
+given by Almighty God himself to the Jews.  I say, it was given by
+himself.  He did not order any prophet, or other holy man, to give it in
+_his_ name; He gave it himself in his own person; He spoke it aloud, in
+the ears of all the people, with his own voice.  And this voice, as we
+are told, was so terrible, that the hearers of it were smitten with
+intolerable fear and trembling, and began to entreat, with the most
+humble and urgent supplications, that God would vouchsafe, in future, to
+make known his will to them by the voice of Moses rather than by his own.
+
+No doubt, _we_ also, who are assembled here, should think it a very awful
+thing, and should tremble in our whole frame, if we were to hear the
+voice of the great God of heaven and earth speaking to us from a cloud,
+or from a mountain-top; and we should naturally desire to hear the
+gentler, the more familiar voice of a man, like one of ourselves; to whom
+also we might listen, and with whom we might talk and reason, without any
+dismay, or even alarm.  However, in this case, we may presume, the mighty
+terror of God’s voice was increased tenfold to those who heard it, by the
+accompanying hoarse blast of the brazen trumpet, waxing louder and
+louder; by the continual crash of tremendous thunderings; and by the red,
+fiery flashes of direful lightnings, which burst around them, whilst God
+was speaking, out of the thick, dark smoke that covered the top of the
+mountain “where God was;” the whole mountain itself, too, shook from its
+very foundations, and seemed to be all in a flame, burning with fire.
+
+Now, what was the reason of this unusual manifestation of the Divine
+Majesty, but that God wished to give the command in the most striking,
+impressive manner, so that it should never be forgotten by _that_
+generation of men; and to show them a terrific instance of his power
+also, that they might tremble at the very thought of disobeying him, and
+of profaning, or neglecting, the Sabbath-day, which he _thus_ commanded
+them to remember, to keep it holy.
+
+But this was not all.  God was not satisfied that He had done enough,
+even when He had uttered this command with his own voice, and with all
+that show of his terrible power and majesty; He wrote it also on a tablet
+of stone with his own finger; and He ordered the sacred tablet to be
+preserved with the utmost care, in the most sacred place—in the very ark
+where his whole covenant with his chosen people was preserved also.  One
+generation alone could have heard that voice, and have seen those
+miraculous signs; but many succeeding generations, to remote times, might
+see the tablet of stone, and read the writing of God’s finger, and learn
+the Divine will for themselves with a more reverential awe; whilst every
+other supernatural circumstance of the history was taught by one
+generation to another, and was handed down from father to son through
+_all_ generations.
+
+You may readily now understand, then, of what vast importance this
+command must be in the eye of God, and how necessary the observance of it
+is for the welfare and happiness of man.  For, if this were not so—if it
+made no difference, either to God’s own glory, or to _our_ welfare and
+happiness, whether the Sabbath-day were remembered to keep it holy or
+not; it is difficult to conceive that God should have taken so much
+pains, as it were, to establish a Sabbath-day at all; by descending, as
+He did, from heaven upon the Mount, in the midst of lightnings, and
+thunderings, and an earthquake; by proclaiming it to the astonished,
+trembling multitude with his own voice; by writing it, besides, with his
+own finger; and by ordering it to be laid up in the ark as a divine
+ordinance for ever.
+
+But how does all this apply to other nations, and to _us_, of _this_
+nation, and of _this_ age?  God gave the command in this miraculous
+manner to the Jews only; how do _we_ know that He intended that _we_, and
+all mankind, should observe it to the end of time?
+
+This is a very reasonable question, and it may have a very satisfactory
+answer; namely, that the same causes for a Sabbath-day, and for
+remembering it, to keep it holy for ever, concern alike all the rest of
+mankind as well as the Jews; and that _we_ Christians, above others, have
+especial cause for hallowing our own Sabbath-day; such as neither the
+Jews, nor the rest of mankind, until they become Christians, _can_ have
+for hallowing their’s.  If it were _their_ bounden duty to hallow
+Saturday, or any other day, much more is it _ours_ to hallow Sunday.
+
+In truth, the ordinance of a Sabbath, to be kept holy to the Lord, is of
+the same age and antiquity with the creation of the world itself.  It was
+not first established amongst the Jews; it was only renewed and
+re-established amongst _them_, when they themselves, like the heathens,
+had forgotten, or neglected it.  It was established as early as with
+Adam, the first man, even in Paradise; and, therefore, all the sons of
+Adam—that is, the whole race of mankind, and not the Jews only, are
+equally bound to keep it.  By proclaiming it to the Jews, as He did, God
+shows to us how awfully we ought to think of it; but all the nations of
+the world, which existed before, were bound by it before; and all which
+have existed since, and exist now, _have_ been, and _are_, bound by it,
+in consequence of their common descent from Adam, to whom it was declared
+in the beginning, and made a law to his whole posterity for ever.
+
+Nevertheless, if God himself had said nothing about it, it would have
+been the duty of man, the rational creature of God, and indebted to God
+for so many blessings—for so many noble powers and faculties, to have set
+apart some portion of the time which God gave him to the especial honour
+of the bountiful Giver—to have employed that time solely in thanking him
+for his precious gifts and his gracious providence—in meditating upon his
+glorious perfections and his marvellous works—and in serving and
+worshipping him by all other means, with such peculiar, extraordinary
+tokens of love, and gratitude, and veneration, as would not have been
+possible, or not suitable, at every time, and in every place; but only at
+the appointed time, and in some appointed place.
+
+This, I say, would have been the duty of man, if left entirely to the use
+of his own reason.  But no individual _could_ have determined for
+himself, and still less were all men likely to agree with each other,
+what the portion of time to be set apart for this purpose should be; how
+much the beneficent Author of their being, and of all their enjoyments,
+would expect of them to consecrate to him; and how often the consecrated
+time should return, so as to please God, and draw down from above his
+further blessings upon them.
+
+This, then, which _we_ should have been quite unable to decide for
+ourselves, God has decided for us.  He has himself, in his infinite
+wisdom, determined what is fit and proper both for _us_ and for _him_.
+He has not put us under the necessity of reasoning upon so important a
+matter at all; from the very beginning He appointed it for an everlasting
+law, that the portion of time to be dedicated to his especial service and
+worship should be one day out of every seven days: that six successive
+days should be _ours_ for labour of body and of mind, and for all the
+needful business of this present life; that the seventh day should be
+_his_, for a holy rest unto the Lord—for celebrating his wondrous
+works—and for a more quiet, undisturbed consideration of our own immortal
+concerns, and all the spiritual business of the life which is to come
+hereafter.
+
+But the seventh day, then, if we will use it thus, is _ours_ as well as
+_his_; it is _ours_ more than all the six which go before: it is _ours_
+in its own sublime, peculiar sense, to give us a foretaste of eternity by
+withdrawing us from temporal things; in short, it is one of the best
+gifts of God to man.  O taste and see how gracious the Lord is!  The
+Sabbath is to his own glory; but what would man be without it?  The most
+wretched of beings in every way; worn out before his usual allotted time
+with unintermitted toils; brought down to the grave by a premature old
+age and decay; and, what is still worse for him, with diminished hopes of
+happiness in another and a better world.  The Sabbath, thanks be to God!
+brings with it, if we will, a sweet, a tranquil, a refreshing rest: it
+repairs and renews the languishing, the broken powers of body and of
+mind; it sends us forth again to our duties on the following day with new
+strength, and a new spirit, more adequate to the performance of them;
+cheerfulness sits upon our brow, instead of a perpetual gloom; health,
+instead of the sad hue of a thousand maladies, which never-ending,
+never-pausing labour must have necessarily produced.  And if the Sabbath
+has been spent as God intends that it should be spent, no small advance
+has been made towards some happy mansion in our eternal abode.  We have
+heard, we have read, we have thought much about our blessed
+Redeemer—about our own salvation—about the bliss and glory of heaven.  We
+have put ourselves into every way, private and public, of receiving every
+grace of which we stand in need, and which God, through Christ, has
+promised to bestow.  We have prayed more at home than the business of the
+world will permit us to do on any other day; we have assembled in the
+church, as often as the church was open, to receive the mercies to which
+we are entitled, by God’s gift, only as we are members of the church; we
+have confessed our sins there with bended knees and a penitent heart; we
+have said with heartfelt thankfulness, “Amen,” to the covenanted pardon
+of God announced by the minister of Christ; we have partaken of all the
+divine ordinances blameless; if the holy table was decked, we have
+feasted upon the heavenly banquet of our great Saviour’s body and blood.
+These have been the holy deeds of the well-spent day; and holy deeds like
+these will qualify us for the rewards of eternity, if, under the
+continued influence of the Holy Spirit, encouraging, strengthening, and
+sanctifying us, we persevere unshaken in the same course to the end.  The
+Sabbath-day, then, is ours more especially; God, in consecrating and
+hallowing it to himself, has done so to _our_ present and eternal profit.
+By means of it we perform the better all the business of men, all the
+business of Christians, all the business of those who aspire to heaven.
+
+Now, there can be no doubt, but that God, being infinitely wise, and also
+most intimately acquainted with the peculiar wants and infirmities, and
+with the whole nature of man, whom he himself created, and upon whom he
+bestowed what nature he pleased, foreknew, and therefore decided from the
+very first, that one-seventh of man’s time was _necessary_ to be, and
+consequently _should_ be, released from labour, and devoted to a holy
+rest.  But the way which he took to show this to _us_, and to give us, at
+the same time, an awful and striking sense of it, is perhaps one of the
+most wonderful instances of all the wonders of his providential care of
+us.  He himself, in his mighty work of the creation of this world, tasked
+himself to a six-days’ labour, and rested on the seventh day, in order
+that man, following _his_ example, might use the same proportion of
+labour and rest.
+
+And this He has told us in his holy word; He has not left it to _us_ to
+find it out by our own reason; He has informed us himself.  It had been
+easy for _him_, for Omnipotence, surely, to have made the world, and all
+the creatures that fill, diversify, and adorn it, in a single day; nay,
+in a single hour; yes, truly, in a single minute.  As He said, “let there
+be light, and there was light;” so He had only to say, “let there be a
+world,” and there would have been a world.  In a single instant of time,
+in the very twinkling of an eye, all the miracles of creation that are
+visible to _us_, and all that are invisible, beyond the ken even of our
+imagination, at the Divine fiat, at the simple sound of the omnific word,
+would have sprung into existence at once, and into all the well-being,
+order, and harmony, by which all things will consist, in the same beauty
+and perfection, unto the end.  But then there would have been nothing in
+such a proceeding for the moral instruction, or for the temporal and
+eternal benefit of men.  He set bounds, therefore, to his own boundless
+power; He reduced infinite down to finite; He controlled his own almighty
+energies, and ordered his work, a whole world, so as to finish it in six
+days; He knew that a seventh day of rest was needful for man; and,
+therefore, He bestowed it upon him as a merciful boon, secured to him
+indefeasibly for ever by the express pattern of his own doings, and by
+the positive command to copy that pattern throughout all ages.
+
+Now let us see, then, how we stand as Christians.  Do you think it
+likely, however, that so merciful a religion, as that of Christ, should
+take this merciful ordinance of the Sabbath from us?  Do you think it
+likely that the same God, who, under the law, ordained a Sabbath, even
+for the miserable brute creation, that the poor cattle might rest from
+their labours as well as their rich owners, should abolish it under the
+gospel?  Of all incredible things this would be the most incredible, that
+God should care so much for beasts, which perish, as to provide _them_ a
+temporary repose from bodily toil, and none for man, who has an immortal
+soul to be saved, or lost, for ever; after having redeemed him, too, by
+the most astonishing method of the sacrifice of his own beloved Son.  O
+they of little faith, who reason thus!  But, blessed be God! it is not
+so.  As Christians, we are still the posterity of Adam; and, if we
+partake, alas! of all the evils that sprung from Adam, at least we
+partake of this one benefit.  Sin has not deprived us of it, but made it
+the more necessary for us.  Again, as Christians, we are not indeed the
+posterity of Abraham, according to the flesh; and, therefore, we are not
+necessarily under any part of the law given to the Jews; except it might
+have pleased the Author and Finisher of our faith to adopt any part of it
+into his gospel.  But this he most clearly did with respect to the ten
+commandments, of which the hallowing of the Sabbath is one.  He fulfilled
+and abolished every thing ceremonial, which concerned the Jews only; he
+retained, and gave a new force and sanctity to every thing moral, which
+concerns all mankind; and, without doubt, it is in every view a moral
+duty, that the thing made should worship the great Maker, on solemn days,
+which shall often return—that they should return, as they do, on every
+seventh day, we owe to God’s gracious providence.  “The Sabbath,” as our
+Lord beautifully and mercifully said, “was made for man;” and,
+consequently, whilst man remains upon this earth, a stranger and a
+pilgrim, travelling along a weary, rugged road, towards some better
+country in the distant prospect before him, the Sabbath too remains; on
+the authority of our blessed Saviour it remains, to refresh us all on our
+journey; to support and comfort us under the fatigue of it; and to cheer
+us with the thought of the everlasting Sabbath in heaven, of which it is
+the type and the shadow.
+
+And this it does the more effectually, because _we_ Christians keep _our_
+Sabbath on our own Lord’s day.  The Jews keep _theirs_ on the day of
+their wonderful deliverance from bondage in Egypt; and very properly.
+But _their_ deliverance from bondage in Egypt was the type and shadow of
+_our_ grander deliverance from the bondage of sin and death; which
+deliverance was then most evidently and undeniably accomplished, when our
+Saviour triumphed openly over both, by rising from the grave, alive and
+victorious.  Well do we call the first day of the week, the revered day
+on which he did it, the Lord’s day; and well have all Christians ever
+since, assured of their redemption by his resurrection on that day,
+consecrated and hallowed it for _their_ Sabbath for ever.  So that now
+all the reasons which could ever have operated amongst mankind for the
+keeping of a Sabbath, and still more reasons, operate upon _us_
+Christians.  We keep one day in seven in memory of the creation, as the
+rest of men should do; but we keep _that_ day, in preference to all
+others, which reminds us, more forcibly than any other, of our second
+creation; of our being begotten again to a new life; of our more
+interesting creation in true righteousness and holiness, after having
+fallen from the divine image of the holy Creator himself.  And, as _our_
+sacred religion is founded upon the religion of the Jews, and was
+shadowed out and prefigured by it, we are naturally led from the antitype
+to the type; from the thing prefigured and shadowed out to the thing
+prefiguring and shadowing it; and we look back with reverence to the
+Jewish Sabbath, so awfully and terrifically appointed, which commemorated
+on a chosen day a great temporal deliverance of _theirs_, prefiguring a
+still greater spiritual deliverance of _ours_.
+
+What shall we now say, then, my beloved, Christian brethren?  Shall we
+not remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy?  And how shall we keep it
+holy, if we employ ourselves on _that_, as on other days?  “The Sabbath
+was made for man;” but how was it made for him, if he labours, as on the
+other six days; if he pursues the same worldly objects, and torments
+himself with the same anxious cares; if he chooses this very day for his
+journies; for his pleasures; nay, even for his vices; and aggravates
+every sin by the abuse of _that_ which was intended to heal it; to give
+him time and repose for self-examination; and to enable him the better to
+make up the solemn account of every action, word, and thought, between
+himself and God?
+
+God blessed the Sabbath-day, and sanctified it for his own glory; but how
+does it promote his glory, whilst the generality of his faithless,
+ungrateful people, even in this Christian nation, never enter his sacred
+courts on that day, to give him the honour due unto his name in the
+presence of their fellow-men.  And “shall I not visit for this, saith the
+Lord?”  Much, indeed, very much is it to be feared, that he _will_ visit,
+with some terrible calamity too, and soon also, this country of ours, so
+dear to us all, so much our boast and pride, which he has hitherto
+guarded with an extraordinary protection, and exalted above other nations
+with unparalleled renown and power.  The breach, the dishonouring of his
+Sabbaths, he will keenly resent, and unsparingly avenge.  What he
+denounced to the Jews should perpetually sound in our ears—“Verily my
+Sabbaths shall ye keep for a perpetual covenant; they are a sign between
+_me_ and _you_ throughout your generations for ever; that ye may know
+that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.  They are holy unto you; every
+one that defileth them shall surely be put to death.”  It is a despite
+done to God himself, directly and personally; it is a scorn both of his
+majesty and his goodness, which cannot but provoke him to consume the
+guilty in his wrath.
+
+Already, indeed, do we feel his wrath in part executed upon us, and in
+part behold it with terror suspended over us.  The nightly incendiary,
+who prowls about in darkness (but God sees him) and destroys the fruits
+of the earth, which should have been for the food of man; the open
+rioter, who, in broad day-light, levels with the ground the temple of
+God, the marts of commerce, the mansions of the great, and puts to the
+hazard even the life of his beneficent neighbour; the wide-wasting
+pestilence, which, with havoc and death in its train, has reached the
+opposite shores, and now only waits the signal to cross the sea to ours;
+all these are the avenging emissaries of God; but the last more
+apparently; and I pray God, as King David did, that _we_ may fall into
+_his_ hands rather than into the hands of men—yet He, who stilleth the
+fury of the warring elements, can also still “the madness of the people.”
+
+But the great question for _you_, and which you should lay your hands
+upon your hearts, and answer conscientiously, is this; how much _you_
+yourselves, individually, have contributed to increase the mass of the
+national guilt in this particular, of which God is so jealous.  As my
+sacred office compels me to speak the truth, and forbids every kind of
+flattery and dissimulation; as I cannot otherwise be useful to any of
+you, or assist you in working out your salvation, but by bearing witness
+to the truth; as I am, moreover, now about to leave you for a while, and
+therefore wish to give you some departing, farewell advice of the most
+momentous importance; I say it, I confess, with deep sorrow, and with a
+painful alarm on _your_ account, that, even in this otherwise
+well-disposed and well-ordered parish, there is a too evident, and a too
+great, neglect of the Sabbath.  In the true spirit of pastoral affection,
+but in the plain, manly, authoritative language of an Apostle, I say, “I
+cannot praise you in this.”
+
+Alas! alas! what correct idea, or right devout feeling of God’s sabbaths,
+can _they_ have, who are always absent from God’s house, and who,
+perhaps, profane these sacred days, besides, by drunkenness, or gaming,
+or some other revelry?  None, undoubtedly.  But all _our_ remonstrances
+from this sacred place must, of necessity, be useless to _them_; they
+need them most, but are never present to hear them.  Of the rest, how few
+come here with so much regularity as to show that it is an essential part
+of their system of life—an established principle of conduct never to be
+departed from but upon the most urgent, extraordinary occasions!  And how
+will God judge of _them_, who think that they do sufficient honour to his
+Sabbath by coming once only, and forget that God may construe their
+coming but once as a proud assumption on their parts, that they want no
+more of his sanctifying grace than once a day may be likely to bestow!
+If the help of the Holy Spirit alone can fit them for salvation, and this
+help is chiefly given by the ministry of the church, how can they be
+perfectly satisfied with themselves, and think that they have done
+enough, when they neglect, once a day, an opportunity of partaking of the
+spirit, which the church is the instrument to convey?  I am not unaware
+of the circumstances of this parish, which render more sometimes
+impossible; but how few, how very few, perhaps two or three individuals,
+lament those circumstances, and the consequent loss of additional means
+of grace!
+
+But how will God judge even of the most exemplary in any congregation,
+who never forsake his house, either for pleasure, or for business, or for
+any of those plausible reasons by which men are too willing to delude
+themselves to their own ruin; if they spend the rest of the day,
+nevertheless, as they spend the other days of the week, and do not
+remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy throughout; if they do not devote
+the whole of it with a sober, religious awe to God; if they do not send
+their children and servants to church with the same punctuality as they
+go themselves; if they do not shun all the resorts of sensuality and
+gaiety abroad, or admit such inmates at home; if they do not study the
+Holy Scriptures, and put aside all other books but such as may tend to
+build them up in faith and piety; and, in short, if they do not live on
+this one day, in conformity with the sacred nature of the day, so
+uniformly and so universally, as to throw a sanctity around the lawful
+business and the lawful pleasures of every other day, and gradually to
+make their whole life truly Christian, truly divine, and fit, indeed, for
+heaven.
+
+Now, if they do not accomplish all this, whatever else they do, they fall
+short of a due observance of the Sabbath; and who is there, even amongst
+the most exemplary, alas! who ever thinks of accomplishing so much?
+Alas, alas! who is there amongst any of us, who, in some way or other,
+does not absolutely break the Sabbath, or even profane it?  And what
+wonder, then, that there should be so much looseness, licentiousness, and
+depravity of manners in our nation; and that so many evils assail us, so
+many impend over our heads, and threaten us with some mighty ruin?
+Sabbath-breaking has led to the temporal and eternal ruin of thousand and
+tens of thousands; it cannot but lead to the deeper corruption of all; to
+the gradual undermining and ultimate extinction of all religious
+principle in the heart of man.  When a people cast off their respect for
+God’s Sabbaths, they are prepared to run the full career of irreligion,
+and of profligacy, and of all the atrocities which scourge and afflict
+mankind.
+
+There are persons in this congregation old enough to remember, as I do, a
+whole powerful nation, our nearest neighbours, casting it off, as it
+appeared, with one consent, and, by cruelties almost unheard of before,
+compelling their spiritual pastors and ministers to fly into exile;
+neither religion, nor the semblance of religion being tolerated any
+longer among them.  And what was the issue?  This amazing apostacy was
+followed immediately by such deeds of horror, by such tragical excesses,
+as will never be blotted out of the annals of time.  But the same impious
+means have been industriously used to produce the same subversion of
+principle here amongst _us_ at home; and, God knows, they have but too
+well succeeded with too many; so that we can scarcely exult any longer
+with our former honourable pride, that our country is as renowned for
+religion, for piety and virtue, for good order and submission to
+authority, and for the deep abhorrence of all atrocities, as she is for
+freedom, for wealth, for victory, and for power.
+
+Finally, then, in bidding you farewell, I earnestly beseech you all, and
+through _you_ I beseech the rest who are under my spiritual charge, to
+ponder most deeply and seriously, and to lay to heart also, what God
+himself spoke with such terrible signs of his power, and what his divine
+finger wrote for an everlasting memorial; what He decreed in the
+beginning of time when He rested from his marvellous works, and
+pronounced them good; and what our blessed Saviour, the fulfiller of all
+righteousness, obeyed in the true spirit of the command, and set the
+pattern to every succeeding generation of Christians; I earnestly beseech
+you all to “remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy.”  And let the
+first proof of your remembrance of it, and the first act of keeping it
+holy, be your constant attendance here in God’s house—a practice which
+will lead you on step by step to every other good work.  Let your
+ministers lament no more the thin attendance of their hearers, in the
+afternoons especially.  Come as often as you may, you will scarcely
+return without being the better and the wiser for it.  I speak not of
+worldly wisdom, but of the wisdom which will save your souls.  What
+blessing is there, of which you stand in need?  Come here, and pray for
+it in concert with the whole assembly—your united prayers, with one mind
+and heart, ascending to God, will fetch every blessing down.  Is there
+any blessing of which you feel the enjoyment?  Come here, and thank God
+for it before your fellow-men.  Are you ignorant of any of the great
+gospel-doctrines which are necessary to be known?  Come here, and they
+will be explained, each in its proper season, and you will be instructed
+to have a due and awful sense of their importance.  Have you been seduced
+into sin; do your devotions become languid; do you neglect any duty; is
+your benevolence cold?  Come to God’s house, and you will hear
+discourses, it is to be hoped, as well as striking passages of scripture,
+which will awaken and arouse you; keep heaven always in your sight; fill
+you with heavenly affections; and prepare you to dwell in some heavenly
+mansion with the blessed saints of God.  _We_, your ministers, I trust,
+amidst all the discouragements with which we are surrounded, the entire
+absence of so many, the apparent lukewarmness of others, preach,
+nevertheless, with the same zeal as if we preached to multitudes athirst
+for the word of God, and do not abate one tittle in our fervent desire
+for _your_ everlasting salvation.  The more, indeed, men neglect
+themselves, the more should the ministers of Christ care for them, and
+stir up every faculty which they have to rescue them from their dream of
+false security.  Let not this labour of _ours_ be in vain!  Labour for
+yourselves as _we_ labour for you; all of us alike, however, trusting to
+a greater strength than our own.  And I pray God, that, under the
+influence of the Divine strength, and guided by his Holy Spirit, _you_
+may become the crown of _our_ labours, and enable us to give up the
+account of our stewardship over you with joy.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 THE END.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                  ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND.
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SABBATH: A SERMON***
+</pre>
+<p>Transcribed from the 1831 Roake and Varty edition by David
+Price.&nbsp; Many thanks to the British Library for making their
+copy available.</p>
+<h1>THE SABBATH;<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">A</span><br />
+SERMON.</h1>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br
+/>
+THE REV. WILLIAM WOOD, B.D.<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">RECTOR OF COULSDON, AND VICAR OF
+FULHAM.</span></p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<div class="gapshortline">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br />
+ROAKE AND VARTY, 31, STRAND.<br />
+1831.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page4"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 4</span>LONDON:<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31,
+STRAND.</span></p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page5"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 5</span><span class="GutSmall">TO
+THE</span><br />
+INHABITANTS OF COULSDON,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">THE FOLLOWING</span><br />
+SERMON,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREACHED IN THEIR
+CHURCH IN THE</span><br />
+AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 23rd,<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,</span><br />
+<span class="GutSmall">AND PRINTED FOR THEIR
+INSTRUCTION,</span><br />
+BY THEIR FAITHFUL PASTOR.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<h2><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>NOTICE
+TO THE READER.</h2>
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Sermon here presented to the
+Public is below all criticism.&nbsp; It makes no pretensions to
+novelty, or to merit of any kind; it is only one of the thousands
+which are preached every week by men, who, in the midst of evil
+report, labour, nevertheless, with an anxious zeal for the
+salvation of souls.&nbsp; It was composed in haste, with no
+intention of printing it, for a sequestered parish, where much
+remains of ancient simplicity; but where the author lamented to
+see, as he thought, a neglect of public worship, not occasioned
+by infidelity, or by profligacy, as in great towns, but by
+ignorance of the subject, or thoughtlessness of conduct.</p>
+<p>The inclemency of the weather having prevented him from
+preaching it at the time intended, and no other opportunity being
+likely to occur for many months, he determined to print it at <a
+name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>once for the
+use of his parishioners; but some other little tracts of his,
+with the same limited object, having been called for by persons
+desirous of doing good in their several spheres, and on a larger
+scale, he thinks it possible that they may wish to have
+<i>this</i> also, and therefore he publishes it.</p>
+<p>The subject of the sermon, in these days especially, is a
+momentous one.&nbsp; May God bless it, for the sake of the
+subject, to his own glory, and to the benefit of men!&nbsp; The
+author has no other wish.</p>
+<h2><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>THE
+SABBATH.</h2>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: center">Exod. xx. 8.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">&ldquo;<i>Remember the
+Sabbath-day</i>, <i>to keep it holy</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><span class="smcap">This</span> command, to remember the
+Sabbath-day, in order to keep it holy, was given by Almighty God
+himself to the Jews.&nbsp; I say, it was given by himself.&nbsp;
+He did not order any prophet, or other holy man, to give it in
+<i>his</i> name; He gave it himself in his own person; He spoke
+it aloud, in the ears of all the people, with his own
+voice.&nbsp; And this voice, as we are told, was so terrible,
+that the hearers of it were smitten with intolerable fear and
+trembling, and began to entreat, with the most humble and urgent
+supplications, that God would vouchsafe, in future, to make known
+his will to them by the voice of Moses rather than by his
+own.</p>
+<p><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>No
+doubt, <i>we</i> also, who are assembled here, should think it a
+very awful thing, and should tremble in our whole frame, if we
+were to hear the voice of the great God of heaven and earth
+speaking to us from a cloud, or from a mountain-top; and we
+should naturally desire to hear the gentler, the more familiar
+voice of a man, like one of ourselves; to whom also we might
+listen, and with whom we might talk and reason, without any
+dismay, or even alarm.&nbsp; However, in this case, we may
+presume, the mighty terror of God&rsquo;s voice was increased
+tenfold to those who heard it, by the accompanying hoarse blast
+of the brazen trumpet, waxing louder and louder; by the continual
+crash of tremendous thunderings; and by the red, fiery flashes of
+direful lightnings, which burst around them, whilst God was
+speaking, out of the thick, dark smoke that covered the top of
+the mountain &ldquo;where God was;&rdquo; the whole mountain
+itself, too, shook from its very foundations, and seemed to be
+all in a flame, burning with fire.</p>
+<p>Now, what was the reason of this unusual manifestation of the
+Divine Majesty, but that God wished to give the command in the
+most striking, impressive manner, so that it should never be
+forgotten by <i>that</i> generation of men; and to show <a
+name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>them a
+terrific instance of his power also, that they might tremble at
+the very thought of disobeying him, and of profaning, or
+neglecting, the Sabbath-day, which he <i>thus</i> commanded them
+to remember, to keep it holy.</p>
+<p>But this was not all.&nbsp; God was not satisfied that He had
+done enough, even when He had uttered this command with his own
+voice, and with all that show of his terrible power and majesty;
+He wrote it also on a tablet of stone with his own finger; and He
+ordered the sacred tablet to be preserved with the utmost care,
+in the most sacred place&mdash;in the very ark where his whole
+covenant with his chosen people was preserved also.&nbsp; One
+generation alone could have heard that voice, and have seen those
+miraculous signs; but many succeeding generations, to remote
+times, might see the tablet of stone, and read the writing of
+God&rsquo;s finger, and learn the Divine will for themselves with
+a more reverential awe; whilst every other supernatural
+circumstance of the history was taught by one generation to
+another, and was handed down from father to son through
+<i>all</i> generations.</p>
+<p>You may readily now understand, then, of what vast importance
+this command must be in the eye of God, and how necessary the
+observance of it is <a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+12</span>for the welfare and happiness of man.&nbsp; For, if this
+were not so&mdash;if it made no difference, either to God&rsquo;s
+own glory, or to <i>our</i> welfare and happiness, whether the
+Sabbath-day were remembered to keep it holy or not; it is
+difficult to conceive that God should have taken so much pains,
+as it were, to establish a Sabbath-day at all; by descending, as
+He did, from heaven upon the Mount, in the midst of lightnings,
+and thunderings, and an earthquake; by proclaiming it to the
+astonished, trembling multitude with his own voice; by writing
+it, besides, with his own finger; and by ordering it to be laid
+up in the ark as a divine ordinance for ever.</p>
+<p>But how does all this apply to other nations, and to
+<i>us</i>, of <i>this</i> nation, and of <i>this</i> age?&nbsp;
+God gave the command in this miraculous manner to the Jews only;
+how do <i>we</i> know that He intended that <i>we</i>, and all
+mankind, should observe it to the end of time?</p>
+<p>This is a very reasonable question, and it may have a very
+satisfactory answer; namely, that the same causes for a
+Sabbath-day, and for remembering it, to keep it holy for ever,
+concern alike all the rest of mankind as well as the Jews; and
+that <i>we</i> Christians, above others, have especial cause for
+hallowing our own Sabbath-day; such as neither <a
+name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>the Jews, nor
+the rest of mankind, until they become Christians, <i>can</i>
+have for hallowing their&rsquo;s.&nbsp; If it were <i>their</i>
+bounden duty to hallow Saturday, or any other day, much more is
+it <i>ours</i> to hallow Sunday.</p>
+<p>In truth, the ordinance of a Sabbath, to be kept holy to the
+Lord, is of the same age and antiquity with the creation of the
+world itself.&nbsp; It was not first established amongst the
+Jews; it was only renewed and re-established amongst <i>them</i>,
+when they themselves, like the heathens, had forgotten, or
+neglected it.&nbsp; It was established as early as with Adam, the
+first man, even in Paradise; and, therefore, all the sons of
+Adam&mdash;that is, the whole race of mankind, and not the Jews
+only, are equally bound to keep it.&nbsp; By proclaiming it to
+the Jews, as He did, God shows to us how awfully we ought to
+think of it; but all the nations of the world, which existed
+before, were bound by it before; and all which have existed
+since, and exist now, <i>have</i> been, and <i>are</i>, bound by
+it, in consequence of their common descent from Adam, to whom it
+was declared in the beginning, and made a law to his whole
+posterity for ever.</p>
+<p>Nevertheless, if God himself had said nothing about it, it
+would have been the duty of man, the <a name="page14"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 14</span>rational creature of God, and
+indebted to God for so many blessings&mdash;for so many noble
+powers and faculties, to have set apart some portion of the time
+which God gave him to the especial honour of the bountiful
+Giver&mdash;to have employed that time solely in thanking him for
+his precious gifts and his gracious providence&mdash;in
+meditating upon his glorious perfections and his marvellous
+works&mdash;and in serving and worshipping him by all other
+means, with such peculiar, extraordinary tokens of love, and
+gratitude, and veneration, as would not have been possible, or
+not suitable, at every time, and in every place; but only at the
+appointed time, and in some appointed place.</p>
+<p>This, I say, would have been the duty of man, if left entirely
+to the use of his own reason.&nbsp; But no individual
+<i>could</i> have determined for himself, and still less were all
+men likely to agree with each other, what the portion of time to
+be set apart for this purpose should be; how much the beneficent
+Author of their being, and of all their enjoyments, would expect
+of them to consecrate to him; and how often the consecrated time
+should return, so as to please God, and draw down from above his
+further blessings upon them.</p>
+<p>This, then, which <i>we</i> should have been quite unable to
+decide for ourselves, God has decided <a name="page15"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 15</span>for us.&nbsp; He has himself, in his
+infinite wisdom, determined what is fit and proper both for
+<i>us</i> and for <i>him</i>.&nbsp; He has not put us under the
+necessity of reasoning upon so important a matter at all; from
+the very beginning He appointed it for an everlasting law, that
+the portion of time to be dedicated to his especial service and
+worship should be one day out of every seven days: that six
+successive days should be <i>ours</i> for labour of body and of
+mind, and for all the needful business of this present life; that
+the seventh day should be <i>his</i>, for a holy rest unto the
+Lord&mdash;for celebrating his wondrous works&mdash;and for a
+more quiet, undisturbed consideration of our own immortal
+concerns, and all the spiritual business of the life which is to
+come hereafter.</p>
+<p>But the seventh day, then, if we will use it thus, is
+<i>ours</i> as well as <i>his</i>; it is <i>ours</i> more than
+all the six which go before: it is <i>ours</i> in its own
+sublime, peculiar sense, to give us a foretaste of eternity by
+withdrawing us from temporal things; in short, it is one of the
+best gifts of God to man.&nbsp; O taste and see how gracious the
+Lord is!&nbsp; The Sabbath is to his own glory; but what would
+man be without it?&nbsp; The most wretched of beings in every
+way; worn out before his usual allotted time with unintermitted
+toils; brought <a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+16</span>down to the grave by a premature old age and decay; and,
+what is still worse for him, with diminished hopes of happiness
+in another and a better world.&nbsp; The Sabbath, thanks be to
+God! brings with it, if we will, a sweet, a tranquil, a
+refreshing rest: it repairs and renews the languishing, the
+broken powers of body and of mind; it sends us forth again to our
+duties on the following day with new strength, and a new spirit,
+more adequate to the performance of them; cheerfulness sits upon
+our brow, instead of a perpetual gloom; health, instead of the
+sad hue of a thousand maladies, which never-ending, never-pausing
+labour must have necessarily produced.&nbsp; And if the Sabbath
+has been spent as God intends that it should be spent, no small
+advance has been made towards some happy mansion in our eternal
+abode.&nbsp; We have heard, we have read, we have thought much
+about our blessed Redeemer&mdash;about our own
+salvation&mdash;about the bliss and glory of heaven.&nbsp; We
+have put ourselves into every way, private and public, of
+receiving every grace of which we stand in need, and which God,
+through Christ, has promised to bestow.&nbsp; We have prayed more
+at home than the business of the world will permit us to do on
+any other day; we have assembled in the church, as often as the
+church was open, to receive <a name="page17"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 17</span>the mercies to which we are entitled,
+by God&rsquo;s gift, only as we are members of the church; we
+have confessed our sins there with bended knees and a penitent
+heart; we have said with heartfelt thankfulness,
+&ldquo;Amen,&rdquo; to the covenanted pardon of God announced by
+the minister of Christ; we have partaken of all the divine
+ordinances blameless; if the holy table was decked, we have
+feasted upon the heavenly banquet of our great Saviour&rsquo;s
+body and blood.&nbsp; These have been the holy deeds of the
+well-spent day; and holy deeds like these will qualify us for the
+rewards of eternity, if, under the continued influence of the
+Holy Spirit, encouraging, strengthening, and sanctifying us, we
+persevere unshaken in the same course to the end.&nbsp; The
+Sabbath-day, then, is ours more especially; God, in consecrating
+and hallowing it to himself, has done so to <i>our</i> present
+and eternal profit.&nbsp; By means of it we perform the better
+all the business of men, all the business of Christians, all the
+business of those who aspire to heaven.</p>
+<p>Now, there can be no doubt, but that God, being infinitely
+wise, and also most intimately acquainted with the peculiar wants
+and infirmities, and with the whole nature of man, whom he
+himself created, and upon whom he bestowed what nature he
+pleased, foreknew, and therefore decided <a
+name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>from the very
+first, that one-seventh of man&rsquo;s time was <i>necessary</i>
+to be, and consequently <i>should</i> be, released from labour,
+and devoted to a holy rest.&nbsp; But the way which he took to
+show this to <i>us</i>, and to give us, at the same time, an
+awful and striking sense of it, is perhaps one of the most
+wonderful instances of all the wonders of his providential care
+of us.&nbsp; He himself, in his mighty work of the creation of
+this world, tasked himself to a six-days&rsquo; labour, and
+rested on the seventh day, in order that man, following
+<i>his</i> example, might use the same proportion of labour and
+rest.</p>
+<p>And this He has told us in his holy word; He has not left it
+to <i>us</i> to find it out by our own reason; He has informed us
+himself.&nbsp; It had been easy for <i>him</i>, for Omnipotence,
+surely, to have made the world, and all the creatures that fill,
+diversify, and adorn it, in a single day; nay, in a single hour;
+yes, truly, in a single minute.&nbsp; As He said, &ldquo;let
+there be light, and there was light;&rdquo; so He had only to
+say, &ldquo;let there be a world,&rdquo; and there would have
+been a world.&nbsp; In a single instant of time, in the very
+twinkling of an eye, all the miracles of creation that are
+visible to <i>us</i>, and all that are invisible, beyond the ken
+even of our imagination, at the Divine fiat, at the simple sound
+of the omnific word, would have <a name="page19"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 19</span>sprung into existence at once, and
+into all the well-being, order, and harmony, by which all things
+will consist, in the same beauty and perfection, unto the
+end.&nbsp; But then there would have been nothing in such a
+proceeding for the moral instruction, or for the temporal and
+eternal benefit of men.&nbsp; He set bounds, therefore, to his
+own boundless power; He reduced infinite down to finite; He
+controlled his own almighty energies, and ordered his work, a
+whole world, so as to finish it in six days; He knew that a
+seventh day of rest was needful for man; and, therefore, He
+bestowed it upon him as a merciful boon, secured to him
+indefeasibly for ever by the express pattern of his own doings,
+and by the positive command to copy that pattern throughout all
+ages.</p>
+<p>Now let us see, then, how we stand as Christians.&nbsp; Do you
+think it likely, however, that so merciful a religion, as that of
+Christ, should take this merciful ordinance of the Sabbath from
+us?&nbsp; Do you think it likely that the same God, who, under
+the law, ordained a Sabbath, even for the miserable brute
+creation, that the poor cattle might rest from their labours as
+well as their rich owners, should abolish it under the
+gospel?&nbsp; Of all incredible things this would be the most
+incredible, that God should care so much for beasts, <a
+name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>which perish,
+as to provide <i>them</i> a temporary repose from bodily toil,
+and none for man, who has an immortal soul to be saved, or lost,
+for ever; after having redeemed him, too, by the most astonishing
+method of the sacrifice of his own beloved Son.&nbsp; O they of
+little faith, who reason thus!&nbsp; But, blessed be God! it is
+not so.&nbsp; As Christians, we are still the posterity of Adam;
+and, if we partake, alas! of all the evils that sprung from Adam,
+at least we partake of this one benefit.&nbsp; Sin has not
+deprived us of it, but made it the more necessary for us.&nbsp;
+Again, as Christians, we are not indeed the posterity of Abraham,
+according to the flesh; and, therefore, we are not necessarily
+under any part of the law given to the Jews; except it might have
+pleased the Author and Finisher of our faith to adopt any part of
+it into his gospel.&nbsp; But this he most clearly did with
+respect to the ten commandments, of which the hallowing of the
+Sabbath is one.&nbsp; He fulfilled and abolished every thing
+ceremonial, which concerned the Jews only; he retained, and gave
+a new force and sanctity to every thing moral, which concerns all
+mankind; and, without doubt, it is in every view a moral duty,
+that the thing made should worship the great Maker, on solemn
+days, which shall often return&mdash;that they should return, as
+they do, on <a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+21</span>every seventh day, we owe to God&rsquo;s gracious
+providence.&nbsp; &ldquo;The Sabbath,&rdquo; as our Lord
+beautifully and mercifully said, &ldquo;was made for man;&rdquo;
+and, consequently, whilst man remains upon this earth, a stranger
+and a pilgrim, travelling along a weary, rugged road, towards
+some better country in the distant prospect before him, the
+Sabbath too remains; on the authority of our blessed Saviour it
+remains, to refresh us all on our journey; to support and comfort
+us under the fatigue of it; and to cheer us with the thought of
+the everlasting Sabbath in heaven, of which it is the type and
+the shadow.</p>
+<p>And this it does the more effectually, because <i>we</i>
+Christians keep <i>our</i> Sabbath on our own Lord&rsquo;s
+day.&nbsp; The Jews keep <i>theirs</i> on the day of their
+wonderful deliverance from bondage in Egypt; and very
+properly.&nbsp; But <i>their</i> deliverance from bondage in
+Egypt was the type and shadow of <i>our</i> grander deliverance
+from the bondage of sin and death; which deliverance was then
+most evidently and undeniably accomplished, when our Saviour
+triumphed openly over both, by rising from the grave, alive and
+victorious.&nbsp; Well do we call the first day of the week, the
+revered day on which he did it, the Lord&rsquo;s day; and well
+have all Christians ever since, assured of their redemption <a
+name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 22</span>by his
+resurrection on that day, consecrated and hallowed it for
+<i>their</i> Sabbath for ever.&nbsp; So that now all the reasons
+which could ever have operated amongst mankind for the keeping of
+a Sabbath, and still more reasons, operate upon <i>us</i>
+Christians.&nbsp; We keep one day in seven in memory of the
+creation, as the rest of men should do; but we keep <i>that</i>
+day, in preference to all others, which reminds us, more forcibly
+than any other, of our second creation; of our being begotten
+again to a new life; of our more interesting creation in true
+righteousness and holiness, after having fallen from the divine
+image of the holy Creator himself.&nbsp; And, as <i>our</i>
+sacred religion is founded upon the religion of the Jews, and was
+shadowed out and prefigured by it, we are naturally led from the
+antitype to the type; from the thing prefigured and shadowed out
+to the thing prefiguring and shadowing it; and we look back with
+reverence to the Jewish Sabbath, so awfully and terrifically
+appointed, which commemorated on a chosen day a great temporal
+deliverance of <i>theirs</i>, prefiguring a still greater
+spiritual deliverance of <i>ours</i>.</p>
+<p>What shall we now say, then, my beloved, Christian
+brethren?&nbsp; Shall we not remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it
+holy?&nbsp; And how shall we <a name="page23"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 23</span>keep it holy, if we employ ourselves
+on <i>that</i>, as on other days?&nbsp; &ldquo;The Sabbath was
+made for man;&rdquo; but how was it made for him, if he labours,
+as on the other six days; if he pursues the same worldly objects,
+and torments himself with the same anxious cares; if he chooses
+this very day for his journies; for his pleasures; nay, even for
+his vices; and aggravates every sin by the abuse of <i>that</i>
+which was intended to heal it; to give him time and repose for
+self-examination; and to enable him the better to make up the
+solemn account of every action, word, and thought, between
+himself and God?</p>
+<p>God blessed the Sabbath-day, and sanctified it for his own
+glory; but how does it promote his glory, whilst the generality
+of his faithless, ungrateful people, even in this Christian
+nation, never enter his sacred courts on that day, to give him
+the honour due unto his name in the presence of their
+fellow-men.&nbsp; And &ldquo;shall I not visit for this, saith
+the Lord?&rdquo;&nbsp; Much, indeed, very much is it to be
+feared, that he <i>will</i> visit, with some terrible calamity
+too, and soon also, this country of ours, so dear to us all, so
+much our boast and pride, which he has hitherto guarded with an
+extraordinary protection, and exalted above other nations with
+unparalleled renown and power.&nbsp; The <a
+name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>breach, the
+dishonouring of his Sabbaths, he will keenly resent, and
+unsparingly avenge.&nbsp; What he denounced to the Jews should
+perpetually sound in our ears&mdash;&ldquo;Verily my Sabbaths
+shall ye keep for a perpetual covenant; they are a sign between
+<i>me</i> and <i>you</i> throughout your generations for ever;
+that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.&nbsp;
+They are holy unto you; every one that defileth them shall surely
+be put to death.&rdquo;&nbsp; It is a despite done to God
+himself, directly and personally; it is a scorn both of his
+majesty and his goodness, which cannot but provoke him to consume
+the guilty in his wrath.</p>
+<p>Already, indeed, do we feel his wrath in part executed upon
+us, and in part behold it with terror suspended over us.&nbsp;
+The nightly incendiary, who prowls about in darkness (but God
+sees him) and destroys the fruits of the earth, which should have
+been for the food of man; the open rioter, who, in broad
+day-light, levels with the ground the temple of God, the marts of
+commerce, the mansions of the great, and puts to the hazard even
+the life of his beneficent neighbour; the wide-wasting
+pestilence, which, with havoc and death in its train, has reached
+the opposite shores, and now only waits the signal to cross the
+sea to ours; all these are the avenging emissaries of God; but
+the last <a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+25</span>more apparently; and I pray God, as King David did, that
+<i>we</i> may fall into <i>his</i> hands rather than into the
+hands of men&mdash;yet He, who stilleth the fury of the warring
+elements, can also still &ldquo;the madness of the
+people.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But the great question for <i>you</i>, and which you should
+lay your hands upon your hearts, and answer conscientiously, is
+this; how much <i>you</i> yourselves, individually, have
+contributed to increase the mass of the national guilt in this
+particular, of which God is so jealous.&nbsp; As my sacred office
+compels me to speak the truth, and forbids every kind of flattery
+and dissimulation; as I cannot otherwise be useful to any of you,
+or assist you in working out your salvation, but by bearing
+witness to the truth; as I am, moreover, now about to leave you
+for a while, and therefore wish to give you some departing,
+farewell advice of the most momentous importance; I say it, I
+confess, with deep sorrow, and with a painful alarm on
+<i>your</i> account, that, even in this otherwise well-disposed
+and well-ordered parish, there is a too evident, and a too great,
+neglect of the Sabbath.&nbsp; In the true spirit of pastoral
+affection, but in the plain, manly, authoritative language of an
+Apostle, I say, &ldquo;I cannot praise you in this.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 26</span>Alas!
+alas! what correct idea, or right devout feeling of God&rsquo;s
+sabbaths, can <i>they</i> have, who are always absent from
+God&rsquo;s house, and who, perhaps, profane these sacred days,
+besides, by drunkenness, or gaming, or some other revelry?&nbsp;
+None, undoubtedly.&nbsp; But all <i>our</i> remonstrances from
+this sacred place must, of necessity, be useless to <i>them</i>;
+they need them most, but are never present to hear them.&nbsp; Of
+the rest, how few come here with so much regularity as to show
+that it is an essential part of their system of life&mdash;an
+established principle of conduct never to be departed from but
+upon the most urgent, extraordinary occasions!&nbsp; And how will
+God judge of <i>them</i>, who think that they do sufficient
+honour to his Sabbath by coming once only, and forget that God
+may construe their coming but once as a proud assumption on their
+parts, that they want no more of his sanctifying grace than once
+a day may be likely to bestow!&nbsp; If the help of the Holy
+Spirit alone can fit them for salvation, and this help is chiefly
+given by the ministry of the church, how can they be perfectly
+satisfied with themselves, and think that they have done enough,
+when they neglect, once a day, an opportunity of partaking of the
+spirit, which the church is the instrument to <a
+name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>convey?&nbsp;
+I am not unaware of the circumstances of this parish, which
+render more sometimes impossible; but how few, how very few,
+perhaps two or three individuals, lament those circumstances, and
+the consequent loss of additional means of grace!</p>
+<p>But how will God judge even of the most exemplary in any
+congregation, who never forsake his house, either for pleasure,
+or for business, or for any of those plausible reasons by which
+men are too willing to delude themselves to their own ruin; if
+they spend the rest of the day, nevertheless, as they spend the
+other days of the week, and do not remember the Sabbath, to keep
+it holy throughout; if they do not devote the whole of it with a
+sober, religious awe to God; if they do not send their children
+and servants to church with the same punctuality as they go
+themselves; if they do not shun all the resorts of sensuality and
+gaiety abroad, or admit such inmates at home; if they do not
+study the Holy Scriptures, and put aside all other books but such
+as may tend to build them up in faith and piety; and, in short,
+if they do not live on this one day, in conformity with the
+sacred nature of the day, so uniformly and so universally, as to
+throw a sanctity around <a name="page28"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 28</span>the lawful business and the lawful
+pleasures of every other day, and gradually to make their whole
+life truly Christian, truly divine, and fit, indeed, for
+heaven.</p>
+<p>Now, if they do not accomplish all this, whatever else they
+do, they fall short of a due observance of the Sabbath; and who
+is there, even amongst the most exemplary, alas! who ever thinks
+of accomplishing so much?&nbsp; Alas, alas! who is there amongst
+any of us, who, in some way or other, does not absolutely break
+the Sabbath, or even profane it?&nbsp; And what wonder, then,
+that there should be so much looseness, licentiousness, and
+depravity of manners in our nation; and that so many evils assail
+us, so many impend over our heads, and threaten us with some
+mighty ruin?&nbsp; Sabbath-breaking has led to the temporal and
+eternal ruin of thousand and tens of thousands; it cannot but
+lead to the deeper corruption of all; to the gradual undermining
+and ultimate extinction of all religious principle in the heart
+of man.&nbsp; When a people cast off their respect for
+God&rsquo;s Sabbaths, they are prepared to run the full career of
+irreligion, and of profligacy, and of all the atrocities which
+scourge and afflict mankind.</p>
+<p>There are persons in this congregation old <a
+name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>enough to
+remember, as I do, a whole powerful nation, our nearest
+neighbours, casting it off, as it appeared, with one consent,
+and, by cruelties almost unheard of before, compelling their
+spiritual pastors and ministers to fly into exile; neither
+religion, nor the semblance of religion being tolerated any
+longer among them.&nbsp; And what was the issue?&nbsp; This
+amazing apostacy was followed immediately by such deeds of
+horror, by such tragical excesses, as will never be blotted out
+of the annals of time.&nbsp; But the same impious means have been
+industriously used to produce the same subversion of principle
+here amongst <i>us</i> at home; and, God knows, they have but too
+well succeeded with too many; so that we can scarcely exult any
+longer with our former honourable pride, that our country is as
+renowned for religion, for piety and virtue, for good order and
+submission to authority, and for the deep abhorrence of all
+atrocities, as she is for freedom, for wealth, for victory, and
+for power.</p>
+<p>Finally, then, in bidding you farewell, I earnestly beseech
+you all, and through <i>you</i> I beseech the rest who are under
+my spiritual charge, to ponder most deeply and seriously, and to
+lay to heart also, what God himself spoke with <a
+name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>such terrible
+signs of his power, and what his divine finger wrote for an
+everlasting memorial; what He decreed in the beginning of time
+when He rested from his marvellous works, and pronounced them
+good; and what our blessed Saviour, the fulfiller of all
+righteousness, obeyed in the true spirit of the command, and set
+the pattern to every succeeding generation of Christians; I
+earnestly beseech you all to &ldquo;remember the sabbath-day, to
+keep it holy.&rdquo;&nbsp; And let the first proof of your
+remembrance of it, and the first act of keeping it holy, be your
+constant attendance here in God&rsquo;s house&mdash;a practice
+which will lead you on step by step to every other good
+work.&nbsp; Let your ministers lament no more the thin attendance
+of their hearers, in the afternoons especially.&nbsp; Come as
+often as you may, you will scarcely return without being the
+better and the wiser for it.&nbsp; I speak not of worldly wisdom,
+but of the wisdom which will save your souls.&nbsp; What blessing
+is there, of which you stand in need?&nbsp; Come here, and pray
+for it in concert with the whole assembly&mdash;your united
+prayers, with one mind and heart, ascending to God, will fetch
+every blessing down.&nbsp; Is there any blessing of which you
+feel the enjoyment?&nbsp; Come here, and thank God for it before
+your fellow-men.&nbsp; <a name="page31"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 31</span>Are you ignorant of any of the great
+gospel-doctrines which are necessary to be known?&nbsp; Come
+here, and they will be explained, each in its proper season, and
+you will be instructed to have a due and awful sense of their
+importance.&nbsp; Have you been seduced into sin; do your
+devotions become languid; do you neglect any duty; is your
+benevolence cold?&nbsp; Come to God&rsquo;s house, and you will
+hear discourses, it is to be hoped, as well as striking passages
+of scripture, which will awaken and arouse you; keep heaven
+always in your sight; fill you with heavenly affections; and
+prepare you to dwell in some heavenly mansion with the blessed
+saints of God.&nbsp; <i>We</i>, your ministers, I trust, amidst
+all the discouragements with which we are surrounded, the entire
+absence of so many, the apparent lukewarmness of others, preach,
+nevertheless, with the same zeal as if we preached to multitudes
+athirst for the word of God, and do not abate one tittle in our
+fervent desire for <i>your</i> everlasting salvation.&nbsp; The
+more, indeed, men neglect themselves, the more should the
+ministers of Christ care for them, and stir up every faculty
+which they have to rescue them from their dream of false
+security.&nbsp; Let not this labour of <i>ours</i> be in
+vain!&nbsp; Labour for yourselves as <i>we</i> labour for you;
+all <a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span>of us
+alike, however, trusting to a greater strength than our
+own.&nbsp; And I pray God, that, under the influence of the
+Divine strength, and guided by his Holy Spirit, <i>you</i> may
+become the crown of <i>our</i> labours, and enable us to give up
+the account of our stewardship over you with joy.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center">THE END.</p>
+
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br />
+<span class="GutSmall">ROAKE AND VARTY, PRINTERS, 31,
+STRAND.</span></p>
+<pre>
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