Wesley Corpus

usable to help themselves : to preserve the impression of this great truth ever strong upon their minds, that he who is born of a woman must be born again of God, or it is impossible to please him. Thirdly ; it is of equal concern to man to remember that it is the great business of life to imitate the divine example set before us. presume no one will venture to affirm that this end of the sabbath has lost any measure of its force ; that it does not hold full as strongly at this day, as it did on the birth-day of creation; it being therefore evident that God himself hath given this command, and that he hath not repealed it, and that it is sufficiently pro bable he never will, since the designs of the institution must ever remain in all their energy, all that remains is to show, thirdly, What it is to keep the sabbath holy so as to obey the command and answer the ends of it. To keep either a day or a place holy is simply this, to set it apart to religious pur poses ; this is both the proper and the common sense of the word. By saying this day or this place is kept holy, both the learned and the