I say never lose their force;—for what could a sanctified commemoration of the rest of the Great Creator, a commanded acknowledgment, from the creatures He had made, of their subjection and dependence, a periodical pause in their other employments that they might hallow and bless his name,—what, I say, could such reasons for an institution have to do with one age more than another, or with one economy more than another? Plainly, the obligation presses equally on the first man Adam, and the last born of his degenerate sons. In this respect, the Sabbath was not made for Noah and the patriarchs specially, to commemorate the world’s second birth; nor for Moses and the Israelites specially, to celebrate the triumphs of the wilderness and the sea. It was made neither for Jew, nor Christian, nor Church, nor age;—_The Sabbath was made_ FOR MAN. II. Other reasons for the original and indelible sanctity of this institution, I must note more briefly. Thus, what other inference can be drawn from its place in the law of the ten commandments,—that great summary of human duty,—that searching code which, in its Gospel spirituality and breadth, becomes the rule of all outward and inward holiness; that eternal transcript of all creature obedience, which, when heaven and earth shall have passed away, shall stand out as the reflected will of God? _Think not_, said the Great Teacher, _I am come to destroy the law or the prophets_, _I am not come to destroy but to fulfil_. Will any raise a question as to the law here intended being the moral law given to Moses? or conceding that, will they say that when our Lord declared neither _jot nor tittle_ should pass from this law, He meant to say, _men shall keep all the commandments except the fourth_?