A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
Question 58
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 58
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What is required in the fourth Commandment?
The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word; expresly one whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath unto himself.
Doth the fourth Commandment require any especial time to be kept holy?
Yes.
What time?
Such as God hath appointed in his Word.
Doth the fourth Commandment then determine of the special time for divine worship, as the three foregoing Commands do of the Object, means, and manner of worship?
Yes.
Hath God left us to keep what time we please?
No.
What proportion of time hath God expresly set apart in his word to be kept holy to himself.
One wdole day in seven.
Is this Commandment to be understood of the seventh day in order, that is, the last of the seven, or the seventh in number, that is, one in seven?
Of the seventh in number.
Hath God left the determining which day in seven it should be (whether the first or the last) to some other precept?
Yes.
Is the fourth Command then a Moral precept, that is to say, of perpetual force, binding Christians now, as well as Jews heretofore, to the observation of it?
Yes.
Doth it cease to be of force?
No.
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