You may readily now understand, then, of what vast importance this command must be in the eye of God, and how necessary the observance of it is for the welfare and happiness of man. For, if this were not so—if it made no difference, either to God’s own glory, or to _our_ welfare and happiness, whether the Sabbath-day were remembered to keep it holy or not; it is difficult to conceive that God should have taken so much pains, as it were, to establish a Sabbath-day at all; by descending, as He did, from heaven upon the Mount, in the midst of lightnings, and thunderings, and an earthquake; by proclaiming it to the astonished, trembling multitude with his own voice; by writing it, besides, with his own finger; and by ordering it to be laid up in the ark as a divine ordinance for ever. But how does all this apply to other nations, and to _us_, of _this_ nation, and of _this_ age? God gave the command in this miraculous manner to the Jews only; how do _we_ know that He intended that _we_, and all mankind, should observe it to the end of time? This is a very reasonable question, and it may have a very satisfactory answer; namely, that the same causes for a Sabbath-day, and for remembering it, to keep it holy for ever, concern alike all the rest of mankind as well as the Jews; and that _we_ Christians, above others, have especial cause for hallowing our own Sabbath-day; such as neither the Jews, nor the rest of mankind, until they become Christians, _can_ have for hallowing their’s. If it were _their_ bounden duty to hallow Saturday, or any other day, much more is it _ours_ to hallow Sunday. In truth, the ordinance of a Sabbath, to be kept holy to the Lord, is of the same age and antiquity with the creation of the world itself. It was not first established amongst the Jews; it was only renewed and re-established amongst _them_, when they themselves, like the heathens, had forgotten, or neglected it. It was established as early as with Adam, the first man, even in Paradise; and, therefore, all the sons of Adam—that is, the whole race of mankind, and not the Jews only, are equally bound to keep it. By proclaiming it to the Jews, as He did, God shows to us how awfully we ought to think of it; but all the nations of the world, which existed before, were bound by it before; and all which have existed since, and exist now, _have_ been, and _are_, bound by it, in consequence of their common descent from Adam, to whom it was declared in the beginning, and made a law to his whole posterity for ever.