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What kind of apology, then, can we make for ourselves-we
[?] who have been, or are now guilty of violating the
Sabbaths of the lord, either by precept or example:
how shall we answer for our Sacrilegious conduct, in
thus robbing God of that which is his own, Sanctified
and hallowed by him for the most important and Sacred
purposes, do we regard our own personal interests; if we did,
we should not only be punctual in our attendance upon
the Worship of God, on his own appointed day, to render
him due homage in his courts; but we should also carefully
abstain from every thing on that day which could in
any measure offend So holy a being, bringing down
Misery and ruin in our own heads and those of others,
I never kept the Sabbath as I wish, i ought to have
dont I have broken this holy day, and finly i never felt
Satisified with my Self nor anny thing that I have done
in my life, all is Sin and Misery and a wounde concesinces
ho can bare