Page:Dissertation on the first day of the week, and the last of the world; or, A beautiful descant on the Day of Judgment (sic).pdf/2



ONSIDER this, O man! and remember the trict commands of thy God. The almighty and everlating Being, from his infinite goodnes and mercy, has thought proper to give thee ix days to labour in, and reerv'd only one day for himelf; and will we puny mortals, beings of a day, dare to put the Almighty to defiance, and rob him of that too.

There is a certain pleaure aries in the mind of man from the trict obervance of this mot holy day, that all the wild variety of forbidden pleaure the world can afford, cannot equal, in ix days the Lord made heaven and earth the ea and all that in them is, and reted the eventh day, wherefore the Lord bleed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. I ay, that God who poke the heavens and the earth and all their glorious retinue into exitence, he who placed the glorious un in the firmament, that plendid luminary, the fountain of light and heat, and of all the fair creation, the only reemblance of its great Creator: He who lighted up the ilver moon, whoe lucid rays yield beams of comfort to a benighted world: He who deck’d the pacious