GENESIS ii. REST. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested the seventh day from all his work which he had made; and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work that he had created and made.' Exodus xvi. And Moses said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. So the people rested on the seventh day.' Luke xxiii.And the women followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid, and they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.' Christ rested in the tomb of Joseph the last Sabbath under the law: but the evening and the morning were the first day. On that morning he closed his work of humiliation, manifested his victory over death, the curse denounced, by rising from the tomb, and rested on the first day of the week from all his humiliation work; his death, burial, and rest in the grave on the seventh day, being the last part of that work. 142 The following Poem was not found till after Mrs. Graham's Funeral Sermon was preached. JORDAN. oshua chap. i. 11, and chap. iii. Psalm xxiii. 4, lxxiii. 24. THE Solemn hour, my soul, draws near, The holy Ark and Priests appear: They forward move to Jordan's flood, The type, thou knowest, thy Cov'nant God. The signal too, to thee is known, Obey, remove, and follow on; The Ark of the Cov'nant is thy guide, From brim to bottom he drank up, Justice now fully satisfied, The law now honour'd, magnified; Crown'd by Jehovah's firm decree, All nature owns his powerful sway, The emblem, then thou may'st pursue, They gather up upon an heap, The ark and priests there take their stand, With courage fresh my soul shall tread, And now, my Joshua, choose, and lay, For once a suit I did prefer, Then cause thy face to shine on me; THE END. |