The sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings— The Sabbath is first briefly mentioned, as being the first and chief of these solemn meetings; at all times and in all places religiously to be observed, in all their dwellings.
REFLECTIONS.—The sabbath was a weekly feast, and still is such, to every true believer, who especially fears then on God's word and ordinances. A holy rest was to be observed. We must rest from sin as from labour. There was on it to be a holy convocation. Nothing on that day must keep us from waiting in the courts of God's house together—nothing but works of necessity. Note; If servants are kept from Divine service to provide for our bodies, when they should be feeding their own souls, the guilt of sabbath-breaking will be against the heads of that family. And not only by a convocation, but in their dwellings the sabbath must be kept; public duties are but a part of the service; on that day every house must be a temple, and resound with prayer and praise. To prostitute the hours of the evening in vanity, or visiting, or idleness, is to profane the day, as much as when we forsake the assembly of God's people.