And this it does the more effectually, because _we_ Christians keep _our_ Sabbath on our own Lord’s day. The Jews keep _theirs_ on the day of their wonderful deliverance from bondage in Egypt; and very properly. But _their_ deliverance from bondage in Egypt was the type and shadow of _our_ grander deliverance from the bondage of sin and death; which deliverance was then most evidently and undeniably accomplished, when our Saviour triumphed openly over both, by rising from the grave, alive and victorious. Well do we call the first day of the week, the revered day on which he did it, the Lord’s day; and well have all Christians ever since, assured of their redemption by his resurrection on that day, consecrated and hallowed it for _their_ Sabbath for ever. So that now all the reasons which could ever have operated amongst mankind for the keeping of a Sabbath, and still more reasons, operate upon _us_ Christians. We keep one day in seven in memory of the creation, as the rest of men should do; but we keep _that_ day, in preference to all others, which reminds us, more forcibly than any other, of our second creation; of our being begotten again to a new life; of our more interesting creation in true righteousness and holiness, after having fallen from the divine image of the holy Creator himself. And, as _our_ sacred religion is founded upon the religion of the Jews, and was shadowed out and prefigured by it, we are naturally led from the antitype to the type; from the thing prefigured and shadowed out to the thing prefiguring and shadowing it; and we look back with reverence to the Jewish Sabbath, so awfully and terrifically appointed, which commemorated on a chosen day a great temporal deliverance of _theirs_, prefiguring a still greater spiritual deliverance of _ours_. What shall we now say, then, my beloved, Christian brethren? Shall we not remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy? And how shall we keep it holy, if we employ ourselves on _that_, as on other days? “The Sabbath was made for man;” but how was it made for him, if he labours, as on the other six days; if he pursues the same worldly objects, and torments himself with the same anxious cares; if he chooses this very day for his journies; for his pleasures; nay, even for his vices; and aggravates every sin by the abuse of _that_ which was intended to heal it; to give him time and repose for self-examination; and to enable him the better to make up the solemn account of every action, word, and thought, between himself and God?