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Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 21

Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day

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8. This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs before hand, do not only observe an holy Rest, all the Day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments, and recreations,a but also are taken up the whole time, in the public and private Exercises of his Worship, and in the Duties of necessity, and mercy.b

Proofs

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  1. aExodus 20:8; Exodus 16:23; Exodus 16:25–26; Exodus 16:29–30; Exodus 31:15–17; Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15–19; Nehemiah 13:21–22
  2. bIsaiah 58:13; Matthew 12:1–13

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