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spend it in the service of the Lord? p. 130, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. To illustrate: A man who is engaged in the service of another person says with propriety that his time is not his own, but belongs to him for whom he works; and in order that a servant may show that his time belongs to his master, he must cease to labor for himself, and employ his time in laboring for his master. p. 130, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. To further illustrate this point we would refer to the ancient sanctuary. When this sanctuary had been sanctified unto the Lord, the priests could not use it as they could their own houses; yet they had a work or service to perform in it. So it is in regard to the Sabbath. It belongs to the Lord, and we must consecrate it unto him by employing it in a special manner in his service. Thus we see that the Sabbath is a rest from our own work to be employed in the nobler work of our Creator. p. 130, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. But says the objector, "The commandment plainly declares that in it (the seventh day) thou shalt not do any work." We answer, The work specified is "thy work." Says the commandment, "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work" (any of thy work). p. 130, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. This view harmonizes the Sabbath law with those laws which required the priests to labor on the Sabbath-day in attending to duties connected with the sanctuary. God does not under any age give laws conflicting with each other. If God required his to keep laws clashing with each other, they could not obey him; in trying to obey him they would disobey him, and he would be the author of sin. p. 131, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. Those who claim that the fourth commandment prohibits all kinds of labor on the seventh day, must adopt the position (as an able opponent once did) that the Sabbath law did not regulate the priests. Hence, according to this view, the Sabbath was not binding on all Israel. But those who urge this objection would do well to remember that the Israelites had to go to, and return from, the synagogues on the Sabbath. p. 131, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].
Again, they performed actual labor in saving the lives of their beasts, and in supplying their wants on the Sabbathday, Matt. xii, 11; Luke xiii, 15, and the great Law-giver or his Son, who understood and taught the design and import of the law, never condemned them for such acts. p. 131, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. Acts of mercy are lawful on the Sabbath-day. Said the great Teacher to the Jews, who had loaded the Sabbath as well as the fifth commandment with traditions, and who through breaking the law dishonored God, Mark vii, 6-14; Rom. ii, 23, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath-days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?" Luke vi, 9. "Is it lawful (according to law) to do well on the Sabbathdays." Matt. xii, 12. "The Sabbath was made for man." Mark ii, 17. If it was not lawful to do acts of mercy on the Sabbath-days, then the Sabbath would be against man, and not for man. p. 131, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. Again, Christ said, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." John v, 17. The Father had worked from the beginning in mercifully sustaining the lives of this creatures on the Sabbath as well as on other days of the week. Christ followed the example of his Father, and showed that what he did was lawful, and we should do well to imitate the Father and the Son in this respect. p. 132, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. God would be worshiped understandingly by his creatures, and the reason why we are called upon to sanctify the Sabbath is expressed as follows: "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it." In Gen. ii, 3, we have the same reason expressed in the following terms: "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his works which God created and made." p. 132, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. From this we learn that the Sabbath is a memorial which points back to the works of the Creator. p. 132, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. One leading object of the Sabbath is to induce men to contemplate the Creator in his perfections, which shine gloriously in the works of creation. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, even his eternal power and Godhead." Rom. i, 20.
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into subjection to the will of God,
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Christ, let us go on to perfection;
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as holy, sanctified, perfect, and s
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When John the Baptist was preaching
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worship of the beast (papacy). By t
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Again, those parts which should be
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By it we appropriate to ourselves t
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can feast, and of which they can in
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future state given by Mahomet; also
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on just and reasonable motives, on
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in God's word? Consistent persons a
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doctrine. This was the case with an
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e dearer to us than life, and we sh
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works cannot be wrought and brought
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the senses; and Christians cannot k
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But we are to cleanse ourselves fro
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As God does nothing in vain, it is
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Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. The great apos
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the summer, and gathereth her food
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And first, the tongue is rightly us
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the world. p. 57, Para. 2, [HOLINES
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for this sin, and of the necessity
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