Wesley Corpus

dise, it will not be long before truth itself will pronounce the one an abomination and the other a den of thieves. If from what has been said, it appears that this command, " Keep the sabbath holy," was promulgated to man by God, and that for wise ends, even to preserve in him a deep abiding sense that God is his creator, his sanctifier, and his pattern ; se condly, that as God has not yet repealed this command, so the ends of it are in full force; and lastly, that the only way of keeping the sabbath holy, of obeying this command, and answering its design, is to abstain from all works which neither necessity nor mercy re quires, that we may set apart the day of God for the service of God, which alone is to sanc tify or keep it holy ; then is the sabbath no institution of Moses, neither is it peculiar to the Jewish nation, but the command to observe it, as well as the reasons of that command, extend to all ages and nations. Then if we subtract from it the additions of the latter Jews, and this one circumstance peculiar to them, " Let no man go out of his place on the sabbath-day ;" whereby the Almighty guarded