'Go down to Edinburgh to-night, and go to the door of such and such a church, and, as he comes out arrest Clip-the-Commandments, for he has heard My word all this day again but will not do it.' Where would you be by midnight if God rose up in anger and swore at this moment that your disobedient time should be no longer?
You would be speechless before such a charge, for the shears are in your pocket at this moment with which you have clipped to pieces this Sabbath- day: shears red with the blood of the Fourth Commandment.

For, when did you rise off your bed this resurrection morning?
And what did you do when you did rise?
What has your reading and your conversation been this whole Lord's day?
How full your heart would have been of faith and love and holiness by this time of night had you not despised the Lord of the Sabbath, and cast all His commandments and opportunities to you behind your back?
What private exercise have you had all day with your Father who sees in secret?
How often have you been on your knees, and where, and how long, and for what, and for whom?
What work of mercy have you done to-day, or determined to do to-morrow?
And so with all the divine commandments: Mosaic and Christian, legal and evangelical.

Such as: A tenth of all I have given to thee; a covenant with a wandering eye; a mouth once speaking evil, is it now well watched?
not one vessel only, but all the vessels of thy body sanctified till every thought and imagination is well under the obedience of Christ.

Lest His anger for all that begin to burn to-night, make your bed with Eli and Samuel in His sanctuary to-night, lest the avenger of the blood of the commandments leap out on you in your sleep! 4.

The Old Serpent took with him the great shears of hell, and clipped 'Thou shalt surely die' out of the second chapter of Genesis.