When the Israelites came out of Egypt, that right God institut-
ed the Passover, and put back the original Sabbath one day, to
our Saturday ; and that was the Hebrew Sabbath for fifteen cen-
turies, kept as a memorial of Creation, and of God's merciful
deliverance of their ancestors from Egyptian bondage. And on
that original Sabbath Christ rose from the dead, and restored it,
as the Lord's day, to its original seventh day; to forever com-
memorate God's works of Creation, the deliverance of His people
from Egyptian bondage, and His own resurrection, and man's
redemption from bondage to Satan, sin, and death. And Sunday



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has, ever since, been kept as the day of rest for man, and for the
worship of God by His Church and Christendom; and as the
Gentiles observed a festival called Sunday, in honor of the Sun,
it was a help to bring them to Christian worship. And that has,
ever since, been one of the names of the Lord's day.
It was a Jewish custom to make a festive supper five days
before the Pascal lamb was taken to the Temple, to be shut up,
as devoted to God, until it was sacrificed. This feast Simon, the
leper, made; and Lazarus was with Christ at the table. And
there Mary poured the ointment on His head, and anointed
His feet, and wiped them with her hair ; and but for Judas' com-
plaint — that it might have been sold for much and given to the
poor — ^it might not have been known that it was for His burial.
