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HE intitution of keeping the eventh day holy was wiely ordered by Providence for two purpoes. To ret the body, and call off the mind from the too eager puruit of the hadows of this life, which, I am afraid, often obcure the propect of futurity, and fix our thoughts on earth. A repect for this ordinance is, I am peruaded, of the utmot conequence to national religion. The vulgar have uch a notion of it, that with them, going to church, and being religious, are almot ynonymous terms. They are