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/5

 which often vanih e'er yet half enjoy!d, have o deep an impreion on the mind of man as to render him altogether incapable of the weet contemplations of a never ending felicity. If o, it were better we had never exited nor wak'd to life in this world. If all our happines is placed here, and after death no propect but to cxchangeexchange [sic] our darling pleaures and our hort liv'd joys in this world, for eternal horror in the next. Oh! how I hrink back and hudder at the thought, nature recoils and chills the blood in every vein; but till there is hope on this ide death, a lating hope which dawns eternal day; for the blood of the immortal Jeus, through a incere repentance, can wah from every in.

The inexpreible pleaure, which a truly religious man enjoys in the trict performance of his duty to God, (as far as in him lies,) o far out ballances the enual pleaures of this life, that a drop of rain to the pacious ocean, is no comparion. And the great duty of remembering the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, is certainly productive of every good; becaue there are very few, nay, I hope none at all, who delight to oberve this holy day, but will have a guard upon themelves the enuing week, and do all that in them lies to keep it holy too; but if we mipend this holy day, how can we expect the bleing of the Almighty to follow is in the other ix. Therefore, O man, whomoever thou art, for the good of thine everlating oul, and for the ake of our ever-bleed and glorious Redeemer Jeus Chrit our Lord, Keep this day holy: On this day did he who died for the long of a ruined world, rie again to the reurrection of ctcrnaleternal [sic] life, and finih'd the glorious and incomprehenible plan of man's everlating redemption. And on this memorable day, it may be, that our immaculate Lord and Saviour, the