Westminster Confession of Faith · 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 affaires before hand, doe not only observe an holy Rest, all the Day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly imployments, and recreations,a but also are taken up the whole time, in the publique and private Exercises of his Worship, and in the Duties of necessity, and mercy.b
Proofs
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Commentary
- David Dickson, Truths Victory over Error (1684), on 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8
Related texts
- Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized, 1646) 21.8
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 22.8
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 22.8
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658) 22.8
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