Philadelphia Confession of Faith · Chapter 22
Of Religious Worship, & the Sabbath Day
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7. As it is of the Law of Nature, that, in general, a Proportion of Time, by God’s Appointment be set apart for the Worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive, moral, and perpetual Commandment; binding all Men, in all Ages, he hath particularly appointed one Day in Seven for a Sabbath to be kept holy unto him, which from the Beginning of the World, to the Resurrection of Christ, was the last Day of the Week; and from the Resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first Day of the Week,a which is called the Lord’s Day; and is to be continued to the End of the World, as the Christian Sabbath; the Observation of the last Day of the Week being abolished.b
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