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Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing) · Chapter 22

Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day

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8. The Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day, from their own works, words, and thoughts, about their wordly employment, and recreations, but also are taken up the whole time in the publick and private exercises of his worship, and in the dutiesa of necessity and mercy.b

Proofs

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  1. aIsaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15–23
  2. bMatthew 12:1–13

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