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 ny abrogation of the Spirit, meaning, or end of the law, as to the devoting the ſeventh part of our time to God. What then will they have to anſwer for, who ſet apart this day for travelling, and worldly amuſements: what an awful account many profeſſors will have to give, who violate this day, by working, poſting their books, keeping their ſervants unnecceſſarily at home to dreſs dinners and things which might have eaſily have been obtained on the preceding day. Let all ſuch remember how incompatible this is with the law of God.

You are now in the prime of your age and vigour, and may be in favor, and buſineſs: but all this will leave you, and you will one day better underſtand and reliſh what I ſay to you, then you will find that there is more truth, comfort, and pleaſure in retiring and turning your heart from the world to the good ſpirit of God, and in reading the Bible, than all the courts and favor of Princes.

It is ſuppoſed that the Scriptures