Wesley Corpus

A Word to a Sabbath-Breaker Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 11 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- HAve you forgotten who spoke these words? Or do you. set Him at defiance? Do you bid Him do his worst? Have a care. You are not stronger than He. “Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth; but woe unto the man that contendeth with his Maker. He sitteth on the circle of the heavens; and the inhabitants of the earth, are as grashoppers before him !” “Six days shalt thou do all manner of work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” It is not thine, but God’s day. He claims it for his own. He always. did claim it for his own, even from the beginning of the world. “In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it.” He hallowed it; that is, he made it holy; He reserved it for his own service. He appointed, that as long as the sun or the moon, the heavens. and the earth, should endure, the children of men should spend this day in the worship of Him who “gave them life and breath and all things.” Shall a man then rob God? And art thou the man? Consider, think what thou art doing! Is it not God who giveth thee all thou hast? Every day thou livest, is it not his gift? And wilt thou give him none? Nay, wilt thou deny him what is his own already? IIe will not, he cannot, ‘quit his claim. This day is God’s. . It was so from the beginning. It will be so to the end of the world. This he cannot give to another. O “render unto God the things that are God's,” now; “to-day, while it is called to-day!” For whose sake does God lay claim to this day? for his sake, or for thine? Doubtless, not for his own. He needeth ..not thee, nor any child of man. “Look unto the heavens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. If thou sinnest, what doest thou against Him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him? If thou art-righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth.