Wesley Corpus

it for a time, from the disobedience of their stiff-necked forefathers, we may safely affirm of the fourth commandment, as well as of the other nine, that Jesus Christ came not to de stroy, but to fulfil it; and till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from this law till all be fulfilled. Brethren, let me add one word of exhorta tion, and be ye assured of this, that those who watch over your souls as they that must give account would not wilfully lead you out of the way. If there be any here who will not keep the sabbath holy, who says he cannot submit to the rigour imposed, of so worship ping the great, the good, the holy God ; who, so far from estimating his high privilege, thinks prayer and praise, meditation and pious dis course, too heavy a burden to be sustained during a whole day, and so resolves to spend at least a part of this day, either in diversion or business. I exhort all such to work rather than play ! I exhort you that are parents, in particular, if ye care not to train up your chil dren to devotion, when they come from church not to send them to the streets or market