"_Remember the Rest day to keep it holy._" [Surely some particular day is denoted; for it is THE Rest day, not A Rest day.] _Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Rest of the Lord thy God._ [Is it any where historically recorded as a fact that God rested on THE seventh day? It is Gen. 2:2. 'On the seventh day God rested from, all his work which he had made.' Who does not see that that day on which God rested, was the _last_ of the seven which constituted the first week of time?] _In it_--[in WHAT? why, in the seventh day, the last day of the week; for the pronoun _it_ can have no other antecedent]--_thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates._ [WHY must no work be done on that particular day, the seventh or last day of the week? The reason follows.] _For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and_ RESTED _on the seventh day_, [as the record in Gen. 2:2 proves. See also Heb. 4:4.] _Wherefore the Lord blessed the Rest day and sanctified it._ The conclusion is irresistible, that the Rest day spoken of is the particular day on which God rested from his work, which, as before shown, was the last day of the week. That very day, and no other, God blessed and sanctified. The only reason assigned _why_ he sanctified it, is "because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Gen. 2:3. The Rest day, then, which we are required to observe, is "the Rest of the Lord thy God:" which does not mean the rest which the Lord thy God has appointed, though it is true that he has appointed it; nor does it mean a rest which becomes the Lord's by reason of our appropriating it to him; but "the rest of the Lord thy God" means THE REST WHICH THE LORD THY GOD OBSERVED. Now from all this we think it must be evident, that whoever observes any other Rest day than the seventh day of the week, does not observe the Rest--Sabbath--"of the Lord thy God." He may, it is true, appropriate it to the Lord his God, and in that sense call it the Lord's; he may ignorantly suppose that Christ in the Gospel has appointed it, and in that sense also call it the Lord's; but it can by no means be called "the Rest of the Lord thy God" in the sense of that expression in the fourth commandment. Hence, irresistible is our conviction, that he does not obey the commandment. O brother Christian, why will you persist in maintaining that your Sunday keeping is an act of obedience to the law of the Sabbath? Published by the American Sabbath Tract Society, No. 9 Spruce-street, New-York. No. 9 THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. FALSE EXPOSITION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.