Wesley Corpus

six days, he might upon the seventh retire from this world, and ascend in heart and mind into the heaven of heavens, whither his adorable Creator rested from the works of his creation. Another end of this command God hath de clared, both on Mount Sinai and long after by his prophet Ezekiel : " I gave them my sab baths, that they might know I am the Lord which sanctifieth them." That these sacred days, so often as they returned, might confirm them in the important knowledge, that God was the author of their virtue and happiness as well as oftheir being ; that, should he withdraw his sanctifying power, they would as naturally sink into sin and misery, as, should he withdraw his animating power, they would fall into their native dust. Now as they were instructed by what means holiness was to be attained, so that they might actually attain it was a third wise end of the Almighty's command to keep one day in seven holy. This we learn from that other declaration of God, wherein after it is written, " Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy ;" i follows in the very next verse, " Ye shall keep i