to be merely Jewish, or only the private opinion of some zealots, more nice than wise; know, that as the fourth commandment is of moral obligation, there is the same reason for the strict observance of it, as any other divine precept, as against idolatry, murder, fornication, &c. And the taking away of the morality of the fourth commandment, and unloosing the conscience from the immediate bonds of God's command to observe a day for his solemn worship, overthrows true religion, and the power of godliness, and opens a wide gap to atheism, profaneness, and all licentiousness; as daily experience proves in those persons and places, by whom and where the Lord's day is not holily and duly observed.

CHAPTER VI. DIRECTIONS HOW TO END THE DAY WITH GOD.

When you have walked with God from morning until night, whether on a common day, a day of fasting, or on the Lord's day, according to the former directions; it remains that you conclude the day well, when you would give yourself to rest at night. Wherefore,

First, Look back and take a strict view of your whole carriage that day past. Reform what you find amiss; and rejoice, or be grieved, as you find you have done well or ill, as you have advanced or declined in grace that day.

Secondly, Since you cannot sleep in safety, if God, who is your keeper, Psa. cxxi. 4, 5, do not wake and watch for you, Psa. cxxvii. 1; and though you have God to watch when you sleep, you cannot be safe, if he that watches be your enemy; wherefore it is very convenient, that at night, you not only conclude the day with your family, by reading some Scripture,