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the Sabbath, and their retribution by the captivity in Babylon. The weekly Sabbath of this world is a type of the everlasting Sabbath of the next: may not the violation of the earthly Sabbath exclude the breaker from the rest of heaven? And, if, in the breach of the commandments, "he who shall offend in one point, is guilty of all," (JAMES ii. 10.) will not he who violates one article of that command be guilty of the whole? and he who suffers his own cattle to be worked, or encourages or connives at the working of the cattle of others, does he not stand before God, the guilty Sabbath-breaker?

Let us still remember, however, that "the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath," (MARK ii. 28.) and hath declared, that it “ was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." (MARK ii. 27.) The cattle may be led to the water, (LUKE xiii. 15.) and, if any of them "fall

into a pit," or meet with any accident on the Sabbath, we may pull them out," or otherwise relieve them; (MATT. xii. 11.; LUKE xiv. 5.) and, therefore, in case of great necessity, the cattle may be made the instruments of mercy and of comfort to their master, man. But, in any such case, the Sabbath should not be lost to them altogether, but deferred merely to the morrow.

V. Next to food and rest comes the preservation of their health, and timely and proper assistance under accidents.

Animals living in what is called a state of nature, seeking their own proper food, and enjoying freely the open air and exercise, rarely suffer from disease; or, if they do, the same instinct which directs them to their food, leads them to their proper medicine also. It is animals taken from their state of nature by man,

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and being improperly worked, or fed, or housed, or used, which chiefly suffer in their health; and, when this is the case, proper rest, medicine, and attendance, is due to them from their masters. The attention which has been paid to this subject of late years, and to the general convenience of animals, in some of those matters, in which we depart from a state of nature with them, deserves great commendation.

VI. These are our principal points of duty in our treatment of animals. And it is in this case, as in all others, that what is a man's duty is his real interest, would he but see it: no case can be mentioned in which a man's interest will not suffer by his failure in any of these points. A few general reflections shall conclude the subject.

1. When we consider the animal creation

merely as proofs of the wisdom, and power, and goodness of the Almighty, they are fit subjects for our admiration and praise. From the Leviathan of the waters, and the Behemoth of the earth, to the insects invisible to us but by the aid of glasses, all are proofs of an Almighty and an incomprehensible God,incomprehensible in his might, incomprehensible equally in the minutest of his works.

2. But when we consider, that all were contrived and given for the use of man, how must admiration swell and break forth into gratitude and praise. Of the important use which many render to us we are aware; but how many contribute to our use and comfort, of which we are not conscious, and of which we take no notice? And of this we may rest assured, that, however we may not see the use of some, or misapprehend and misapply the use of

others, yet all were intended for our good, and all would be so, but for our ignorance and folly.

3. We may consider them further, as affording us lessons of economical, moral, and spiritual instruction. From how

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form by instinct, what we are to make out by reason and consideration. In the answer of Agur to the question, "What things are small and contemptible in themselves and yet wise? he replies: There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer, and they teach us to prepare against a time of adversity; The conies, or Arabian mice, are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks, and thus teach us caution in avoiding those dangers we cannot resist; The locusts have no

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