offered every seventh day, and sometimes thirty bullocks, rams and lambs; and in all of the Jewish Sabbaths except that on the tenth of the seventh month, it is expressly said “ye shall do no _servile work_ therein.” Now all this was work and labor, but it was ceremonial worship and obedience to God, hence it was not _servile_ work. It is explained in Exo. xii: 16, “No manner of work shall be done save that which every _soul_ must eat. That only may be done.” What will you do with all these commands, Barnabas. Did they not have to go out of their places after God gave them the law from mount Sinai? Did they not assemble for worship? Did they not prepare them food to eat, think ye, after the manna ceased? and did not the Saviour say of his disciples, when reproached for eating corn on the Sabbath day by the Pharisees, that they were guiltless? Was it wrong to take it without leave? See Deut. xxiii: 24, 22. Was not the work of circumcision always going on every weekly Sabbath? Now Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath, shows us under the Gospel, where he transposes these ten commandments from the tables of stone, and gives them in our minds and writes them on our hearts; shows us that this work or labor on the Sabbath, were henceforth acts of necessity and mercy, instead of _servile work_ because our mode of worshipping God was entirely changed. Hence Jesus said, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work.” John v: 17. See what kind of work, xvii: 4. “Done the will of God, finished his work,” after supper. See also iv: 34, and v: 36. See his good works, x: 25, 32. This then was the work that Jesus and his Father were doing, and for these he is called a notorious Sabbath breaker. Well he is now doing a marvellous work. Hab. i: 5, yet ye will not believe. “It is time for the Lord to work for men have made void thy law.” Psl. cxix. It does not follow that men shall be put to death now for violating the Sabbath, any more than for violating the first, fifth, seventh, or all the commandments—for the penalty of death follows the violation of every one of the commandments. 1st commandment: “Thou shalt have no other Gods.” See Deut. xiii: 6-10 and Exo. xxii: 20. 2d. “Thou shalt not make any image.” Deut. xiii: 12, 16. 3d. “Thou shalt not profane my name.” Lev. xxiv: 16, 22, 23. 4th. “Remember the Sabbath day.” Num. xv: 32, 33, 36. 5th. “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Lev. xx: 9. 6th. “Thou shalt not kill.” Lev. xxiv: 21 and 17. 7th. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Lev. xx: 10. 8th. “Thou shalt not steal.” Joshua vii: 20, 21 and 25. 9th. “Thou shalt not witness falsely.” Deut. xix: 16, 17, 19, 21. 10th. “Thou shalt not covet.” Jos. vii: 20, 25. All of the commandments together. Num. xv: 30, 31; see also Deut. xxviii: 15-67.