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Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Sabbath: In Which the Nature of the Institution, and the Obligations to Its Observance, Are Stated and Illustrated
But this, comparatively speaking, is a very con fined and inferior end, of this, the most ancient and venerable institution known to human society. As the means of uniting us in fellowship with God, and of recalling to our minds his creating power and redeeming love - as the symbol of that peace ful blessedness which awaits the faithful in the land of uninterrupted purity and rest-there is no appointment of Providence, and, no ordinance of religion, which point more directly to the present dignity of man, and his future destination to glory. It abstracts him from the cares and the business of.
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