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which often vaniſh e'er yet half enjoy!d, have ſo deep an impreſſion on the mind of man as to render him altogether incapable of the ſweet contemplations of a never ending felicity. If ſo, it were better we had never exiſted nor wak'd to life in this world. If all our happineſs is placed here, and after death no proſpect but to cxchange our darling pleaſures and our ſhort liv'd joys in this world, for eternal horror in the next. Oh! how I ſhrink back and ſhudder at the thought, nature recoils and chills the blood in every vein; but ſtill there is hope on this ſide death, a laſting hope which dawns eternal day; for the blood of the immortal Jeſus, through a ſincere repentance, can waſh from every ſin.
The inexpreſſible pleaſure, which a truly religious man enjoys in the ſtrict performance of his duty to God, (as far as in him lies,) ſo far out ballances the ſenſual pleaſures of this life, that a drop of rain to the ſpacious ocean, is no compariſon. And the great duty of remembering the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, is certainly productive of every good; becauſe there are very few, nay, I hope none at all, who delight to obſerve this holy day, but will have a guard upon themſelves the enſuing week, and do all that in them lies to keep it holy too; but if we miſpend this holy day, how can we expect the bleſſing of the Almighty to follow is in the other ſix. Therefore, O man, whomſoever thou art, for the good of thine everlaſting ſoul, and for the ſake of our ever-bleſſed and glorious Redeemer Jeſus Chriſt our Lord, Keep this day holy: On this day did he who died for the long of a ruined world, riſe again to the reſurrection of ctcrnal life, and finiſh'd the glorious and incomprehenſible plan of man's everlaſting redemption. And on this memorable day, it may be, that our immaculate Lord and Saviour, the
