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the exposition of this Commandment, I propose to present the internal sense first: thus shall we learn the true foundation of the holiness of the Sabbath; an understanding of which will prepare us for forming just ideas in regard to the manner in which the day should be observed.

All the ordinances of the Jewish Church were representative of spiritual and Divine things. All the ceremonies and observances enjoined upon that church represented states of thought and affection in the mind. The Jews themselves, indeed, knew nothing of the interior significance of those ordinances; yet, while they performed them with exactness and faithfulness, and in a spirit of obedience, those observances