(2.) Abandon the Sin of Sabbath-breaking, that you may Remember your Creator. It is the Command of God in Exod. 20. 8. ⟨p. 80⟩Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy: Men are like to Remember God himself, if they remember this day of the Lord as they ought to do. If you look through the World, you shall see that Mens Religion is as their Sabbath is. The Sabbath is the Engine by which, by the Bible, true Remembrance of God is kept alive. It is the Description which the Lord gives of all good Men, in Isa. 56. 4. They that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me. Young Men, this is the Day, to which all other days may say, Thou art worth Ten thousand of us: Of this Day it shall evermore be said, O thou Day that is highly favoured, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among the Days, and cursed is he that despises thee! Young Persons are apt on this day to be vain in their Thoughts and Words, and Idle in their whole Behaviour: But labour thou to spend this Day as a Market-day for thy Soul; spend it in Holy Duties, and in those things that may prove both a Cause and a Sign of thy Rest among the People of God for ever: Do according to that in Isa. 58. 13. Call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, and honourable. Do not abuse this high Day of God; as the Prophet said unto Gehazi, Is this a Time to receive Money? so let me say, ⟨p. 81⟩Is this a time to be making of Bargains, or to be ordering of Journeys? Much more, Is this a time for Rioting and Drunkenness, for Chambering and Wantonness? or for such things as are never seasonable? No, 'tis not such a Time: To the young People that make it such a Time, I would say as in Neh. 13. 18. You bring Wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath: Such Persons are the mere Achans of the Land they live in.
(2.) Abandon the Sin of Sabbath-breaking, that you may Remember your Creator. It is the Command of God in Exod. 20. 8. ⟨p. 80⟩Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy: Men are like to Remember God himself, if they remember this day of the Lord as they ought to do. If you look through the World, you shall see that Mens Religion is as their Sabbath is. The Sabbath is the Engine by which, by the Bible, true Remembrance of God is kept alive. It is the Description which the Lord gives of all good Men, in Isa. 56. 4. They that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me. Young Men, this is the Day, to which all other days may say, Thou art worth Ten thousand of us: Of this Day it shall evermore be said, O thou Day that is highly favoured, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among the Dayes, and cursed is he that despises thee! Young Persons are apt on this day to be vain in their Thoughts and Words, and Idle in their whole Behaviour: But labour thou to spend this Day as a Market-day for thy Soul; spend it in Holy Duties, and in those things that may prove both a Cause and a Sign of thy Rest among the People of God for ever: Do according to that in Isa. 58. 13. Call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, and honourable. Do not abuse this high Day of God; as the Prophet said unto Gehazi, Is this a Time to receive Money? so let me say, ⟨p. 81⟩Is this a time to be making of Bargains, or to be ordering of Journeys? Much more, Is this a time for Rioting and Drunkenness, for Chambering and Wantonness? or for such things as are never seasonable? No, 'tis not such a Time: To the young People that make it such a Time, I would say as in Neh. 13. 18. You bring Wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath: Such Persons are the meer Achans of the Land they live in.
