[I]

am always very well pleased with a Country

Sunday

; and think, if keeping holy the Seventh Day

were

[1]

only a human Institution, it would be the best Method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of Mankind.

[It]

is certain the Country-People would soon degenerate into a kind of Savages and Barbarians, were there not such frequent Returns of a stated Time, in which the whole Village meet together with their best Faces, and in their cleanliest