"And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
more to return to corruption, he saith on this wise, I will give
thee the sure mercies of David;" wherefore he saith in another
psalm, "Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption."
Now shall not Christians, when they read that God saith, THIS DAY,
and that too with reference to a work done on it by him so full of
delight to him, and so full of life and heaven to them, set also a
mark upon it? "This was the day of God's pleasure," for that his Son
did rise thereon; "and shall it not be the day of my delight in
him?"
Shall kings and princes and great men set a mark upon the day of
their birth and coronation, and expect that both subjects and
servants should do them high honor on that day; and shall the day in
which Christ was both begotten and born be a day contemned by
Christians?
If God remembers it, well may I. If God says, and that with all
gladness of heart, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee;"
may not, ought not I also to set this day apart to sing the songs of
my redemption in?
This day my redemption was finished.
This day my dear Jesus revived.
This day he was declared to be the Son of God with power.
Yea, this is the day in which the Lord Jesus finished a greater work
than ever yet was done in the world; yea, a work in which the Father
himself was more delighted than he was in making heaven and earth;
and shall darkness and the shadow of death stain this day? Or shall
a cloud dwell on this day? Shall God regard this day from above, and
shall not his light shine upon this day? What shall be done to them
that curse this day, and would not that the stars should give their
light thereon? THIS DAY! after this day was come, God never, that we
read of, made mention with delight of the old seventh-day Sabbath
more.
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