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PRINTED BY J. MOIR, PATERSON'S COURT,

For J. DICKSON, J. FAIRBAIRN, J. OGLE, J. GUTHRIE, and S. CHEYNI

Edinburgh G. PLATTIE, Leith: M OGLE, Glasgow:

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G. MILNE, Dundee: A. BROWN, Aberdeen: YOUNG

IMRAY, Inverness: and J. FORSYTH, Elgin.

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10-2-30 KW

4-8-1924

A

TREATISE

CONCERNING

THE SANCTIFICATION

OF THE

LORD'S DAY.

WHEREIN

The MORALITY of the SABBATH, or the Perpetual Ob-
ligation of the Fourth Commandment, is
maintained against Adverfaries
s;

AND

The religious Observation of the LORD'S DAY, or first Day of the Week, as our CHRISTIAN SABBATH, is strongly pressed by Scripture-arguments.

CONTAINING ALSO

Many special DIRECTIONS and ADVICES for the better per forming the most necessary and comprehensive Duty of SABBATH-SANCTIFICATION.

To which are added (by way of APPENDIX)

MEDITATIONS for the SABBATH-DAY, taken from the
AUTHOR'S Manuscripts, never published before.

PROPER FOR FAMILIES.

Rev. i. Io. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day.

PREFACE.

THA

HAT wife king Solomon obferves, Eccl. iii. 1. "To every thing there is a feafon, and a time for every purpose under heaven." And if there be a time and feafon allowed for every thing and purpofe, even the meanest things and purposes in the world; furely an infinitely wife God will allow a proper time and season for the best things and purposes, and particularly for his folemn worship and fervice, which is the most neceffary and excellent purpofe in the world. It is not enough, that we give God, from whom we have all our time, a hare of every day for his fervice; no, we owe him also fome whole days for his folemn and public worship: Yea, it is agreeable to the dictates of the light of nature, and of found reason, that one whole day of every week should be dedicated to him for that end.

All nations through the world have had their feasons and fet times for devotion and facrifices. The heathens, who worshipped dumb idols, had their feftivals and holydays, and particularly one day of the week, which they efteemed more facred than the rest. The Turks, who have taken up with the most unreasonable delufions and impostures, do still retain the impreffions of the rationality and equity of this thing, that there should be a certain day of the week fet apart for the folemn worship of God. Indeed the light of nature, without fome other help, could not have determined men univerfally to dedicate the feventh day of their time to God; more than the fixth or eighth But feeing the wife Creator of the world, and author of time, thought fit from the beginning, to meafure time by days, and parcel out thefe days into fuch remarkable periods as weeks, or the revolution of feven days, to be conftantly observed all the world over; it is most confonant to reafon and equity, that one day of each week should be holy to the Lord.

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But, befides the light of nature, we have the light of revelation for this point; God hath exprefsly appointed

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