Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

Sabbath, in spite of legislative enactments to the contrary; and the people,
bad as they were, rejoiced to be put in possession of the Sabbath which
God had consecrated to rest and religious uses from the foundation of the
world.
But let us remember, as before noted, that while we rest on the Sabbath
we do not idle away the other six days. The Lord commands, "Six days
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work," Exod. xx, 9. Therefore, it has
been justly observed that he who idles away time on the six days is
equally guilty before God as he who does his ordinary work on the
Sabbath. An idle person, though able to discourse like an angel, or pray
like an apostle, cannot be a Christian; all such are hypocrites and
deceivers; the true members of the church of Christ walk, work, and
labour.
No work should be done on the Sabbath that can be done on the
preceding day, or can be deferred to the ensuing week. Works of absolute
necessity and mercy are alone excepted. He who works by his servants or
cattle is equally guilty as if he worked himself; for God has commanded
that both the cattle and the male and female servants shall rest also. Yea,
the slave himself is included; for so the original word often signifies. But
in what a state of moral depravity must those slave-holders be, who
reduce their slaves to such a state of wretchedness that they allow them
only the Sabbath day to cultivate those grounds from which they are to
derive their subsistence; having no food allowed them but what they are
able to bring out of the earth on that day in which the supreme Lord has
commanded their masters to give them rest, and to require no manner of
labour from them. Such enemies to God must expect no common
judgment from the justice of the Most High, whatsoever countries they
may inhabit.
Where men are unmerciful to their own species, no wonder that they
have no feeling for the beasts that perish. Hiring out horses, &c., for
pleasure or business, going on journeys, paying worldly visits, or taking
jaunts on the Lord's day, are breaches of this law. "Doth God care for