Let us turn once again to God's
Word. I want us this morning to turn
to the chapter we were considering last Lord's Day, Isaiah 58. The 58th chapter in the prophecy
of Isaiah, and reading the last two verses, verses 13 and 14,
If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of
the Lord honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with
the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it. You may recall our last Lord's
Day, we looked at the former part of this chapter there in
verses 3 through 7. We considered something of God's
fast, that fast that the Lord delights in. They were a people
who were quite satisfied with the form of godliness. They observed the various feasts
of the Lord, they observed the various fasts. We see how in
the opening chapter they are rebuked, right at the outset,
because they simply rested in their observance of these various
things. And so the rebuke in a sense
continues in that passage we were looking at last Lord's Day
morning, the words that we have here at verse 3 through to 7.
And God's fast is described there at the end in verse 6. Is not
this the fast that I have chosen, says the Lord, to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed
go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread
to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast
out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that
thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh." Where there is a true fasting there is self-denial,
there is humiliation, there is soul affliction. It is really
a day for a man to afflict his soul. God's fast isn't something
that really has to do with the denying oneself of food and other
legitimate things but it's a spiritual exercise and so where there is
that real humility in the soul that self-denial there will be
the preferring of others before self, that ministering to others
this is the fast says God that I have chosen and so we were
considering the opening part of this chapter and then in the
evening we went on to consider what follows from verse 8 through
12 and I sort of say something with
regards to God's feast because this whole portion contains great
promises, gospel promises and this is a consequence how God
looks upon his people and God delights in their true worship
and He favours them with His Word and with His promises. Verse
8, Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go
before thee, the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. Then
shall thou call, and the Lord shall answer. Thou shalt cry,
and He shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst
of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, the speaking
of vanity. Oh, this is truly the feast that
God has provided for his people. As he goes on to say there in
verse 11, the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy
thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt
be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not." Well, having said something with regards to
that Feast of the Lord and that Fast of the Lord, I thought it
would be profitable for us to turn now to see what it says
here at the end of the chapter concerning God's Sabbath. And
it is very much God's Sabbath that is being spoken of, and
see how it is described in this verse, or these verses. God says,
it's my holy day, and then he's spoken of as the holy of the
Lord. Oh, it is the day that the Lord
himself delights in, and it is the portion, very much the portion,
of that man who is the blessed man, that man who is blessed
of his God. We see it in what he said previously
at the beginning of chapter 56, Thus saith the Lord, keep your
judgment and do justice, for my salvation is near to come,
and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth
this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth
the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing
any evil. All the blessed man spoken of
then here in this second verse of the chapter. Chapter 56 He
is that man that layeth hold on it. Layeth hold on what? That
keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from
doing any evil. For this man is truly the blessed
man. He knows something of Jacob's
portion. In that sense, of course, he's
a true Israelite. Remember how it was at Peniel
that Jacob became Israel a prince with God. And how so? Well, he
would lay hold of his God. I will not let thee go, he says. I will not let thee go except
thou bless me. He lays hold of his God. And
here is the blessed man. He lays hold of God's day. He
has regard to what God has appointed. And his portion then is to know
the blessings of his God. It's that faith that really lays
hold of the Lamb, or that One who is set before us continually
in Scripture, that One to whom the Sabbath day will always be
pointing us. And I trust we might see something
of that. Now God, you see, from the very
beginning clearly sets a day apart. We read the account there
in the opening chapter of Scripture concerning creation, and it's
the work of God, it's the work of God, Father, Son and Holy
Ghost by the Word of the Lord were the heavens made, all the
host of them by the breath of His mouth. Who is the Word of
the Lord? Isn't that God the Son? In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him. Without Him was not anything
made that was made. by the word of the Lord were
the heavens made and by the breath of his mouth or by the Spirit
of his mouth or do we not see how the Spirit was there moving
upon the face of the waters at the beginning of all God's creation? That great work then involves
Father, Son and Holy Ghost and when it comes to the creation
of man how there is that that counsel in the Godhead let us
make man say the three persons let us make man in a image after
our likeness and so man is created as God's image bearer and then
after all that work which God accomplishes in six days we read
the chapter there but we read on into the second chapter and
what we're told there at the beginning of chapter two Thus
the heavens were created, the work was finished, the heavens
and the earth. And what does God do? He sets
apart the seventh day, He sanctifies that day. And then subsequently
when we come to the commandments of God in in Exodus 20 and again
in Deuteronomy chapter 5, what do we read in regard to that
fourth commandment? Keep the Sabbath day, says God,
to sanctify it. Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify
it. The Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it. This is the language that we
have in those chapters in Deuteronomy 5 and previously there in Exodus
20. It is very much God's day. My
holy day. The holy of the Lord. I know we've considered this
subject matter on previous occasions, in fact we've looked at these
two verses on a previous occasion, and only recently we were considering
that portion in Hebrews 3 and 4, which speaks of God's rest,
and there's reference there, as you may recall, to the Sabbath
of rest. But I think the subject is a
vital subject, an important subject. So I want us to consider something
more with regards to these things for a while this morning. And
first of all to remind ourselves how that the Sabbath was established
at creation. The Sabbath was established at
creation. That is so clear in the portion
that we read. God of course could have created
everything in one moment of time. But in his wisdom, the Lord God,
according to the scriptural record, created in a period of six days. And they are literal days. The
evening and the morning is the first day, the evening and the
morning is the second day, and so God chooses to work in this
fashion, day by day, over six days, and then on the seventh
day, God rests. And as God rests on that day,
so He sanctifies the day. Literally, He sets the day apart. It is His holy day, He hallows
it. And when it comes to the commandments that God gives to
the children of Israel in Exodus 20, He has brought them out of
the awful bondage that they'd endured there in in Egypt over
many years, the cruelty that God would make them his own peculiar
and special people. And he brings them out to the
Mount Sinai and he enters into covenant with them in terms of
the Ten Commandments. And when he comes to that commandment,
the fourth commandment concerning God's day, the Sabbath day, what
does he say? Remember! Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy. It was something that they were
to remember, it was something they were already familiar with. All
they had to remember it, of course, in the observing of it. But that
word remember also reminds us of the fact that they knew of
the day previously. In fact, just a few chapters
previous to Exodus 20, in chapter 16 of Exodus, we have the account
of the manna. wherewith the Lord God feeds
His people as they've come out of Egypt, as they are a nomadic
people now. What does the Lord God do? He
provides bread from heaven. And the psalmy speaks of how
they were eating angels' food. It's a remarkable miracle that
God performed to feed His people. But what does God do? Quite deliberately,
He sends the manna day by day over 6 days, but there's no provision
on the 7th day. There in Exodus 16.26, 6 days
ye shall gather it, but on the 7th day, which is the Sabbath,
in it there shall be none. But God provides a double portion
on the sixth day so they don't need to go out to gather the
manna on the seventh day. They were those who were disobedient.
But clearly they're already familiar with the idea of a Sabbath day
previous to the coming of the Ten Commandments. It is a creation ordinance Now
there are a number of creation ordinances when we consider those
opening two chapters of Holy Scripture, Genesis 1 and 2. Work
is a creation ordinance. When God reveals himself here
in Holy Scripture, what is the first thing we learn concerning
our God? We see that he he creates, he
works. No, he doesn't work as we work,
because he he creates simply by his word, by his fiat. He says, God spoke and it was
done. God commanded. And he stood fast,
let there be light. And there was light. But God
is revealing himself as that one who is a creator, a maker
of things. In the beginning God created. the heavens and the earth very
opening words the first thing we're told concerning God and when God creates the man
and creates him in his own image
and provides for him a paradise the Garden of Eden what does
God say to the man? there in Genesis 2.15 the Lord
God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress
it and to keep it. The man is not to be idle. The
man is to work. He's to attend to the garden.
He's to... to dress the garden and to keep
it. There's work to be done. And
so, we see this principle when we come to the New Testament
and the Apostle Paul is writing to the Thessalonians. And you
know how he comes at the end of his epistles to those practical
exhortations, and what does he say? 2 Thessalonians 3.10 If
any would not work, neither should he eat. Man is to work for his
bread. Of course there is in scripture
provision made for those who cannot work, but here is the
principle, and it goes right back to the beginning, God is
a creator, God is a worker, man is made in his image, man is
to be a worker. It's a creation ordinance, the
principle of work. Man is not to be an idle creature,
and in the book of Proverbs, time and again of course, that
spirit of slothfulness is condemned, the father of idleness. But then
also, going back to Genesis, we see that marriage is also
a creation ordinance, what God ordained right at the beginning.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave
to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. at the end of Genesis
chapter 2 God has now created the woman Eve and brings her
to the man and she becomes a help to him and God establishes that
very principle of marriage and when we come to the New Testament
what does Paul say Hebrews 13 verse 4 marriage is honorable
in all in all societies Marriage is honourable in all, the bed
undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. This
is what God has established in from the very beginning. The
wisdom of the one who is the Creator is that a man should have his
wife, the wife should have her husband, and that they should
become one flesh. The very idea of the family unit
is there from the beginning. And then also we see clearly
that the Sabbathing is a creation ordinance. We saw the order of
creation. It was on the sixth day that
the Lord God created the man. And then the next day, the seventh
day, the Lord God rested. And you think about it, man's
first day was a Sabbath day. He's created on the sixth day,
And then the very next day is the Sabbath day. In many ways
there's a principle there that we see when we come to the New
Testament because after the coming of Christ and the accomplishment
of a greater work than that of creation, the great work of redemption,
and Christ rises or is risen again on the first day of the
week, and that day becomes the Lord's day, the day that Christians
observe as their special day, their Sabbath day. So, we see
the Sabbath established there at the very beginning of creation. And then, when we come to the
Lord of God, in the second place we see how this Sabbath is confirmed. is confirmed by the Lord of Gods. The fourth commandment remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy and we have it there in Exodus
chapter 20 at verse 8 through 11 and then as you know the commandments
are repeated in Deuteronomy chapter 5 after 40 years of wilderness
wanderings when they're on the borders of the promised land
All 10 Commandments are repeated. And the 4th Commandment is also
there in Deuteronomy 5 verse 12 through 15. And there are various laws associated with that 4th Commandment. Various
regulations governing how they are to observe the day, how they
are to keep the day. and they are quite rigid and
strict laws. For example, in Exodus 35 and there at verses 2 and 3 we
see that they cannot even kindle fires on the Sabbath day. 6 days shall work be done But on
the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath
of rest to the Lord, whosoever doeth work therein shall be put
to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout
your habitations upon the sabbath day. Even kindling fires then
is a capital offence, because any who doeth work of any sort,
and then that specifically is mentioned, does anything like
that is to be put to death, it's a capital offense. This is when we see God's Sabbath
day in terms of the giving of the law, the coming of the Ten
Commandments. Now, there is a distinction,
isn't there, to be made. when we think of the Lord of
God. Israel's civil laws were all mediated through Moses. Amongst them, what we just read
in Exodus 35 concerning the prohibition of kindling fires on the Sabbath
day. These are their civil laws, we
might say. This is what the people desired.
God had spoken the Ten Commandments, the Ten Words, but now the people
were sore afraid that God should come and speak to them thus,
and they really desired that Moses should act as their mediator
and receive all the instructions from God and bring that instruction
to them. there in Exodus 20 verse 18 all
the people were told saw the thunderings and the lightnings
and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and
when the people saw it they removed and stood afar off and they said
unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not
God speak with us lest we die and Moses said unto the people
fear not for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be
before your faces, that ye see not. And the people stood afar
off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God
was. And then Moses is there in the
mount with God forty days, and he's receiving all sorts of instructions. and we're told subsequently how
Moses wrote all the words of the Lord all this instruction
that he is receiving for the people he writes it all down
and then in Exodus 24 7 he took the book of the covenant and
read in the audience of the people and then again in Exodus 34 at
verse 27 Moses is the mediator. The law was given by Moses in
that sense. It's what the people desired,
but this is those laws governing the way in which they had to
conduct themselves as a people, as a distinct nation, as the
Lord's people. But, the Ten Commandments are
different in that they are given directly by God. Quite different
to all those legal prohibitions and so forth,
the Ten Commandments are uttered by God himself. God spake all
these words, we're told there at the beginning of Exodus 20.
And when Moses is recounting the giving of those commandments
in Deuteronomy 5, He says, the Lord talked with you face to
face in the mount. And then subsequently, different
to the regulations that Moses had written in the book, we're
told in Exodus 31.18 that there were tables of stone written
with the finger of God. The Ten Commandments are engraved
then by God's finger in tables of stone and amongst them the
4th commandment and the 4th commandment of course
is in the same category as all the other commandments written
by the finger of God the 6th commandment what does it say?
do not kill thou shalt not kill, do no murder the 7th commandment
do not commit adultery The 8th commandment, do not steal. Now,
these commandments are so basic really. They're so necessary
if you're going to have an ordered society. And there is a civil
use of the law. We think of the use of the Lord
of God, He does have a civil use. And that's and it is then
applied to the children of Israel when Moses receives all those
other instructions and directions and all the prohibitions, the
way in which they had to conduct themselves as a people. All their laws are based upon
the Ten Commandments. And that really is applicable
to all civil society. And I believe that that is brought
out in what we have in Romans chapter 13. where we read, you see, of the
powers that be, civil government. The opening words of that 13th
chapter, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Doesn't Peter say, honour God,
fear God, honour the king? Let every soul be subject unto
the higher powers, for there is no power, no authority, but
of God. The powers that be are ordained
of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance
of God. And they that resist shall receive
to themselves damnation." There is to be proper order in society. Then he goes on that verse 7,
Render therefore to all their Jews tribute to whom tribute
is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom
honor, that we are to pay our taxes, and so forth. Owe no man anything but to love
one another, for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this they shall not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou
shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it
is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself." Now, clearly here there's a connection
between those commandments and the powers of the earth. A proper ordered society is rooted
and grounded in the law of God. and where God's law is disowned,
disregarded, rejected society begins to sow the very seeds
of anarchy. There is then a civil use of
the law of God and we have to remember that. And the Lord Jesus
Christ makes it quite clear that he has come not to destroy the
law in the Sermon on the Mount. He
states that quite explicitly. That great sermon, Matthew 5,
17, think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say
unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments and
shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom
of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall
be called right in the kingdom of heaven." The Lord Jesus upholds
that Law of God and you remember how what he actually does there
in the Sermon on the Mount is he goes on to expound it and
to bring out the true spirituality of the Lord of God. Does he not go on to say that
the wanton look is a transgression of the commandment
thou shalt not commit adultery. Does he not go on and also say
that hatred of a man And that hatred that is expressed in assassinating
his very personality, it's a transgression of the commandment. Thou shalt
not kill. Well, God's law, you see, is
a spiritual law. The law is spiritual, says Paul. But I am carnal, soul under sin. When he was a Pharisee, a self-righteous
man, he thought he could keep that law of God. But there in
Romans 7 he's acknowledging that the Lord showed him the true
nature of the Lord. He knew nothing of the law until
he saw the spiritual nature of that Lord. And so we have to
recognize that whilst God's law has a civil use, the use of the
law in terms of society in general and proper order in society there's
another use of the law, there's a spiritual use there's a theological
use of the law of God also and what is that use of God's law?
it's where it brings the conviction of sin whatever things the law
said, it said to them who are under the law that every mouth
may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. By the law is the
knowledge of sin. It's important then that we remember
these things with regards to the law of God. But it's the Lord Jesus Christ
who is the one who teaches us the true nature of the law. It's
when we come to the New Testament. And furthermore when we come
to the New Testament we learn a very remarkable truth that
the Lord Jesus Christ is that One who is the Lord of the Sabbath.
He's dealing with these Jews, with the scribes and the Pharisees
and all their legality and their abuse really of the Lord of God
how they've swamped God's laws with their own traditions and
their various rituals and how they're ready always to condemn
Christ and his disciples and say that they're those who are
guilty of breaking the Sabbath time and the Lord says there
in Mark chapter 2 that The Sabbath was made for man and not man
for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is Lord
of the Sabbath. He is Lord of the Sabbath. What
does Christ do? Well Christ changes. He changes
the day really. because after Christ has come
and accomplished that great work of redemption instead of observing
the seventh day Christians observe in the New Testament the first
day of the week as their day, the Lord's day and so there is still a day to
be kept and we observed this recently when we were looking
at that portion in Hebrews There in Hebrews 4.9, there remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God. There remaineth therefore
a rest. And the word rest is actually
the word Sabbath. And the margin brings that out
in our authorised version. The marginal reading, there remaineth
therefore a keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God. The fourth commandment then,
in that sense, still stands under the gospel. But not as it stood
in the Old Testament. It's no longer the seventh day.
It's no longer that day that is covered by all the regulations
that Moses brings to Israel concerning their civil society and the way
in which they had to apply that law. But even here, in the Old
Testament, you see, we We have verses such as these that we're
considering this morning that in many ways are pointing us
to the manner in which the day is to be kept under the Gospel. There's not all that rigor of
application that you have under the Old Testament law. If thou
turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, it says, from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight. holy of the
Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with
the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it." Oh yes, it's confirmed under
the law as it's applied so rigorously
to the children of Israel that we only come to the fullness
of what the day is when we come to the New Testament and Christ
and the teaching that we find from his apostles. Sabbath clearly
has the idea of rest, that's the principal meaning. And that's
there right at the beginning. God rested on the seventh day. And as God rested so he sanctifies
the day. It's a day of rest. But true Sabbath rest ultimately
centers in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. a cessation
from any sort of work, any idea of works. And I do think it's
brought out in those lines of the hymn that we were just singing,
352. Cease from your own works, bad
and good, and wash your garments in my blood. There's not just
a ceasing from any sins, but there's a ceasing from any idea
of work contributing anything to salvation. Our salvation is
only in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, of course, speaks of His obedience,
His obedience unto death, even the death of the cross. But His
obedience is there from the beginning. It's obedience in all His life,
even to His dying upon the cross. And that's what we rest in. There's a cessation then from
every work. Before we conclude this morning,
I just want to mention the fact that even in
the Old Testament, when we see that recounting of the Ten Commandments
in Deuteronomy chapter 5, there's something else added. In Exodus
20, that to remember the Sabbath in terms of God's works of creation,
and the fact that he made everything in six days and rested on the
seventh day. But there's something additional
when Moses reminds them of that commandment, that fourth commandment.
We mentioned it before, there in Deuteronomy 5.15. Remember that thou wast a servant
Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, that the
Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God commanded
thee to keep the Sabbath day." In keeping the day, they're not
only remembering the work of creation, they're remembering
also that great deliverance that God had granted to them when
he brought them out of Egypt. And here in Isaiah, what does
the prophet say? Chapter 43 and verse 3, I gave
Egypt for thy ransom. All they have to remember is
that God redeemed them. God redeemed them. And there
was of course the shedding of blood, the tenth plague when
God visited His judgment upon the Egyptians, but the destroying
angel passes over all, the homes of the Hebrews because they are
sheltering under the blood the Passover lamb had been sacrificed
and the blood taken and put up on the door post and the lintels
and there they were to remain and they are to remember, you
see, they are to remember they are a redeemed people but also
now Isaiah is speaking of another deliverance he's ministering
around about a hundred years before the Babylonian captivity
but the Babylonian captivity would last 70 years but there
would also be a deliverance from Babylon for the Jews as God had
brought his people out of Egypt so he would also bring them out of the The exile, those 70 years,
would eventually come to an end. And it's interesting, the context
here. The previous 12th verse, they
that shall be of thee shall build the old ways places. Thou shalt
raise up the foundations of many generations. and they shall be
called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of past and dwelling."
All Jerusalem is going to be rebuilt. The Babylonians had
destroyed the city. They had raised the temple to
the ground. But all is going to be restored. There will be another deliverance.
And each of these deliverances, that from Egypt and also that
would that that would come in due course when God would bring
them out of Babylon, each of them surely point to the great
work that Christ came to accomplish, that great salvation. Remember what the Apostle says there in
Hebrews 4 and verse 3. He's been speaking in particular
of the Hebrews and they're not only coming out of the land of
Egypt, but entering into the promised land. And he says, we
which have believed do enter into rest. Or there's an application
to Christians. Christian believers, they enter
into rest. They rest in the Lord Jesus Christ,
they trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and And the Lord's Day,
the Christian Sabbath is ever pointing us to that, reminding
us of that. We sing sometimes that hymn of
Joseph Hart on the Sabbath day 358. What does he say concerning the
Sabbath? The last verse, this and this
only is the way to rightly keep the Sabbath day which God has
wholly made, or keep us that come short of this, the substance
of the Sabbath miss, and grasp an empty shade. Or that we might
grasp then the true significance, the substance of the day, and
find ourselves resting in the Lord Jesus Christ, doing not our own pleasure as
it were on the day, but turning away from all the
legitimate things even of this mortal life and throughout the
day rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ treating it truly as God's
day, God's Sabbath if thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath
from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath
a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him
not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor
speaking thine own words then shalt thou delight thyself in
the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places
of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it well we tried to deal
with the verses in principle as it were this morning but I
do want the Lord willing to come back to this verse this evening
and look at the detail as we consider just what is being
said and really the promises that are attached to the Sabbath
day. Well the Lord bless to us His
own word. We'll conclude our ministry there
this morning and conclude as we sing our final hymn which
is 1061 and the tune is Rest 211. Lord I believe a rest remains
to all thy people known a rest where pure enjoyment where pure
enjoyment reigns and thou art loved alone all that I know that
now the rest might know believe and enter in. Dear Saviour, now
the power bestow, and let me cease from sin. 1061 and the
tune to 11.