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.

“The woman which thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree.”  Gen. 3.  The woman was given for a help, not a hinderance; but Satan often maketh that to become our snare which God hath given us as a blessing.

“And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?” Gen. 3.  What is this?  God seems to speak as if he were astonished at the inundation of evil which the woman by her sin had overflowed the world withal.  What is this that thou hast done?  Thou hast undone thyself, thou hast undone thy husband, thou hast undone all the world; yea, thou hast brought a curse upon the whole creation, with an overplus of evils, plagues, and distresses.

What is this that thou hast done?  Thou hast defiled thy body and soul, thou hast disabled the whole world from serving God; yea, moreover, thou hast let in the devil at the door of thy heart, and hast also made him the prince of the world.  What is this that thou hast done?  Ah, little, little do sinners know what they have done, when they have transgressed the law of the Lord.