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 Company, refuſe impertinent Viſits; and ſilence improper diſcourſe, that we may enjoy the more full Communion with GOD, and proſecute the buſineſs of our holy calling without Diſtraction. And whoever does ſo, will find unſpeakable advantages in it, to his great Comfort in Life and Death.

For we are aſſured in the Fourth Commandment, That God hath Bleſſed as well as Conſecrated this Day: Wherefore the Lord Bleffed the Sabbath Day, andhallowed it. So that we oppoſe our own Bleſſing when we neglect the duty of this day, or pollute it by any thing contrary thereto. It is a day of Special Grace, wherein the King of Heaven ſits on his Mercy Seat, in a more glorious Manner than on other Days; having declared that he will be ſtow peculiar Bleſſings on them that duly obſerve it. And what true lover of his own Soul can be wanting in laying hold of ſo bleſſed an Opportunity in obtaining favour with Almighty God, and receiving the Riches of his Grace and Mercy in Jeſus Chriſt? Eſpecially conſidering, that we know not how few of theſe Days of Salvation may be granted to us, and how dreadful it is to die in the neglect or prophanation of 'em.

And let none imagine, that this was a commandment to the Jews only, and does not