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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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-                                * * * * *
-
-                                 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.
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