Proper Observance of the Sabbath
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the good of man as well as for His own glory. He saw that the wants
of man required a day of rest from toil and care, that his health and
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life would be endangered without a period of relaxation from the labor
and anxiety of the six days.
The Sabbath was made for the benefit of man; and to knowingly
transgress the holy commandment forbidding labor upon the seventh
day is a crime in the sight of heaven which was of such magnitude
under the Mosaic law as to require the death of the offender. But this
was not all that the offender was to suffer, for God would not take a
transgressor of His law to heaven. He must suffer the second death,
which is the full and final penalty for the transgressor of the law of
God.
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