A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 : a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia / by John Mitchel Mason, Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York.

  • John M. Mason
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MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 : a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia / by John Mitchel Mason, Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in not a few inftances the profanation is dill ir.otc grofs. Do not fome make it a day of bufinefs ? Others a day of feafting ? And others a day of vifiting and amufement ? Have not falutai y laws been enacted to protect the Sabbath from this open and fhamelefs indignity* ? Do our citizens regard thefe laws ? Do our matriftrates find fault with the breach of them ? Whatever be the opi- nions of men, the Lord God will not fuller this iniquity to pafs unpunifhed ; for he has fworn if ye will net hearken unto me to HALLOW THE S ABB ATH-D/IT,—then will I kindle a fre in ycur gatesj anditjhall dcvcuryciir palaces^. * See, in the laws cS the State of New-York, an aft palled Feb. 23, 17S8. Vol. 2. p. 89—91, of Greenleaf's edition^ f Jerem. xvii, 27. The enforcement of the obferva- tion of the Sabbath, by civil authority, cannot be viewed as an unwarranted interference of the magiltrate in mat- ters of religion, or an infringement of the rights of con- fcience. P'or refpect to this divine inititution, is a point in which all denominations of Chriftians are agreed. Apart fiom Chriflian princi] le, tie due obfervation of the Sab- bath has the happieft influence upon civil fociety as fuch ; and therefore it merits themoft vigilant and uninteimit- ted attention of the civil magiftrate. It has been obferv- ** ed by the wife ft men, that were the celebration of this weekly feftival totally neglected, Religion would not long furvive its difufe. (Venn's trails, p. 170.) And no fociety can exift without religion ; becaufc the members of it can have no hold upon each other. On proper en-
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