Chapter 207
VII. k Exod, XX. 8. Remember
the sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Ver. 10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the I-ord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, i>or thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. Ver. 11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : IPV'herefore the Lord blessed the sab-
bath-day, and hallowed it. Isa. Ivi. ::?, Blessed is the man that doeth this, , and the son of man that layeth hold on it : that keepeth the sabbath i from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Ver. 4. For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant. Ver. 6, 7. [See hi letter i.]
1 Gen. ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made : and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Ver. 3, And God blessed th.» seventh day, and sancti- fied it : because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 1 Cor. xvi. 1, Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Ver. 2. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts xx, 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight.
"^ Rev. i. 10. I was in the Spii
lit on the Lord's day, and heard
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