BRIEF REMARKS, &c.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE PATRIARCHAL SABBATH.

THE moral, and therefore permanent, nature of that divine institution which devotes every seventh day to a holy rest, may be fairly deduced from the earliest record relating to the subject. The history of the glorious works which occupied, in succession, the six days of creation, is completed by the following description of the FIRST SABBATH. .1

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sancti

1 The name sabbath, (as I presume most of my readers are aware,) [properly signifies rest. The Hebrew substantive is obviously from a root formed of the same consonants, and signifying "to cease from labour.” Vide Simonis Lex.