...one point of view, and that while the Sanctity of the Sabbath has been urged, it has been forgotten that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath : and the question resolves itself into - this, this, 'whether tile abuse of a merciful indulgence lias been...

...that they associate with the return of the Sabbath no ideas of gloomy restraint. Bear always in mind, that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath ; and, while on this day you lead their hearts to the feelings of piety, at the same time show them, that...

...the prohibition. Our Lord, however, though he came to fulfil the law, judged otherwise : he told them that " the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath ;" and that " it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath-day." Here, then, was an instance of conflicting duties...

...andrendered.intelligible, by those rules and figures which Ruddinian has detailed. The Scripture has it, that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, — and, by a similar process of reasoning, I concluded, that the classics were made for the rules of Syntax,...

...Acnta, lib. •. . c, 14. p. 490. of corn, and for David's eating the shew-bread, and telleth them, that " .the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath, and that God will have mercy, and not sacrifice." Divinity is a curious, well-composed frame. As it is...

...them to be involved. It was urged, in application to all the most sacred institutions of the church, that " the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." And when such a current of religious feeling set in, it was too much to expect from the infirmities of...

...commit, that of Sabbath-breaking has noplace in 1 he attainder—but, on the contrary, he is made to say, that, " the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath :" and his Apostle.clenches the nail, by expressly instructing the Galatian converts, that the observance...

...that of Sabbath-breaking has no place in the attainder — but, on the contrary, he is made to say, that, " the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath :" and his Apostle clenches the nail, by expressly instructing the Galatian converts, that the observance...

...any person who plies the cattle on the Sabbath for hire, as upon ordinary working days. It is true, that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; and in the service of God, the priests profaned the Sabbath, and were blameless : and works of necessity...

...the " Evangelical" misanthropes of modern days, they reversed the doctrine of our Saviour, who taught that the. " Sabbath was made for Man, and not man for the sabbath ;" and imbued by the acrimony of their own crabbedness, took no delight except in " vinegar aspects," and...