six days, he might upon the seventh retire from this world, and ascend in heart and mind into the heaven of heavens, whither his adorable Creator rested from the works of his creation. Another end of this command God hath declared, both on Mount Sinai and long after by his prophet Ezekiel: “I gave them my sabbaths, that they might know I am the Lord which sanctifieth them.” That these sacred days, so often as they returned, might confirm them in the important knowledge, that God was the author of
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