Saturday, January 30, 2021

Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC) Q&A # 57-#62 (1646,1647)

 #57 Question: What is the fourth commandment?

        Answer: The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy manservant or thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, not thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in then is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hollowed it.”

 #58 Question: What is required in the fourth commandment?

         Answer: The fourth commandment requires us the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.”

 #59 Question: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?

        Answer: From the beginning of the world to the Resurrection, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.

 #60 Question: How is the sabbath to be sanctified?

        Answer: The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day; even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God Worship; except so much as it be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.

 #61 Question: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?

         Answer: The fourth commandment forbideth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.

 #62 Question: What are the reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment?

        Answer: The reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his  challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his  blessing the Sabbath Day.

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)