and attention to him ought never to ceafe. Whether at work or not at work, he is his Mafter's fervant and dependent; and the master by the compact and indenture of the great Law of natural justice is bound to fupport him. And if the Beast cannot help himfelf to what he wants, it is the Mafter's duty to fupply him with

it.

Be it thy Care and Duty therefore, if thou art the Mafter of a laboring Brute, to obferve the foregoing precepts and examples in the article of Food and Refreshment. When thy Beaft is at

work for thee,* MUZZLE HIM

* Deut. XXV. 4.

NOT.

NOT. When he hath carried thee or thy burthen, Eafe him, + UNGIRD him, and give him STRAW and PROVENDER. And when tied to the full crib, if it be too much trouble to thee to empty thy pitcher into the trough, and to DRAW WATER for him, yet at least remember to loofe him from the fall, and either §fend him forth, or || lead him away to WATERING.

But to proceed.

II. To give the Cattle FOOD, and food in due season, is but a part of our duty towards them; or but

one duty amongst others. A man may feed his beaft till he fwells with fatness, and yet be cruel to him, if he works him above his ftrength, or gives him not fufficient REST. And here again the Goodness of GOD their Creator condefcends to interfere on their behalf. For it is thus written in the firft table of the Ten Commandments, established as the great Rule of Practice throughout the Jewish and the Chriftian World:-Remember the * Sabbath

Day

By the Sabbath DAY, I mean every Seventh DAY fet apart as a day of Reft and Devotion according to the ufage of different nations and it appears to me of little moment what day of the week is fet apart to this end, provided the order of fix and the seventh

is

Day to keep it holy. In it thou fhalt not do any work, Thou, nor

thy

is obferved. If the Chriftian Church had appointed Saturday to have been continued as the Sabbath, and the State had confirmed that appointment, it would have been our duty to have obferved the Saturday, and not the Sunday. The very change of the day by buman authority (for no one will fay that our Lord Jefus Chrift appointed the change) fhews that one day is not intrinfically more holy than another, and yet that the obfervance of a feventh-day Sabbath, or of a sabbath every feventh day is abfolutely neceffary for the fake of man and beaft, and conformable to the divine commandment. I mention this, to preclude any Christian from endeavoring to evade the force of my enfuing argument taken from the Jewish Law, under pretence that the day being changed, the defign of the commandment is in part changed likewife; and that the Letter of the Law of Mofes is not bind

ing upon Chriftians. I grant that the letter of the Law as to the particular day is not binding, but the fpirit of the Law, being a Law

thy Son, nor thy Daughter, thy man Servant, nor thy maid Servant, nor thy CATTLE, nor thy Stranger that is within thy gates (Exod. xx. 8, 10.) This commandment is addreffed to Masters and Fathers of families, as is evident from the pronouns, thy fon, thy daughter, thy fervant, thy cattle. The tranfgreffion therefore against it, whether by Child, Servant, or Beaft, is the fin of the Father or Mafter; and the most punctual obfervation of it on the

of Mercy, is ftill binding, notwithstanding our Christian Liberty. For I cannot believe that our Lord Jefus, who came to fulfil all Righteoufnefs, ever meant, in any thing he faid or did, to cancel one fingle duty of Juftice or Mercy.

* Matt. iii. 15. V. 17.

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