Earnest appeals : in a series of letters, on subjects relating to the present and eternal happiness of the soul.
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- 1854
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Credit: Earnest appeals : in a series of letters, on subjects relating to the present and eternal happiness of the soul. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![scripture, so that the truth may commend itself to your heart and conscience. I.— The institution of the Sabhath. This we find to have been immediately after the work of crea- tion. It is written, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made. and God blessed the seventh day, and sancti- fied it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”* He has thus given this institution the powerful confirmation of his example. He could have caused the heavens and the earth, and all that they contain, to be created, by a single word, as easily as by several successive ones; but, providing a sabbath for man, he himself Avas engaged during the six days in the work of cre- ation, and on the seventh he rested; thus, by what he himself did, affording the believer the comfort of indulging the reflection; ‘during the six days I work with God, and on the sabbath I rest with God.’ The next mention which is made of the sabbath, is when the children of Israel gathered the manna in the wilderness, a few weeks previous to the giving of the tables of the moral law to Moses on mount Sinai. “ To-morrow,” said Moses, “ is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord,” «fec. f It is to be regretted that some persons have raised objections to the sabbath, on the ground that the keeping of it is not distinctly referred to by the sacred historian when writing of the events which occurred in the days of » Gen. ii. ]-3. + Exod. xvi. 5, lG-31.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21302169_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
