"God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Gen 2:3.
To sanctify is "to separate, set apart, or appoint to a holy, sacred, or religious use." Webster.
It was by this act of the great Creator, that the Sabbath was made for man. Ex.20:11; Mark 2:27.
As God has never taken this blessing from the seventh day, and has never given to secular purposes the day which he here "set apart to a holy use," the original institution still exists."
J.N. Andrews