Wesley Corpus

unlearned mean, it is dedicated to God, it is appropriated to his service ; and to profane or unhallow a holy day or place is, not to set it apart to these uses ; to use it in the same manner with other things which are not dedi cated to God, not appropriated to his service ; to perform in the consecrated day, or in the holy place, the works of ordinary days and un hallowed places4 To keep the sabbath- day holy, as well in the proper or common sense of the word, is therefore to set it apart to religious uses, to dedicate it to the service of God : what is im plied in this we shall easily perceive, if we consider first, what we must secondly, what we may thirdly, what we may not do, on the sabbath of the Lord our God. First, We must, if we would obey this com mand at all, and answer the ends for which it was ordained, employ a considerable part of this day in prayers and praises to God ; we must retire with him from this lower world into those regions which are above the firma ment; to contemplate on the various works which he hath made, and on the goodness.