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The Morning Devotional: WCF 21.8 (Part Two)
The Morning Devotional: WCF 21.8 (Part Two)

The Morning Devotional for July 21, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 21.8
Part Two

VIII. This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, 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

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The Morning Devotional: WECF 21.8 (Part One)
The Morning Devotional: WECF 21.8 (Part One)

The Morning Devotional for July 20, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 21.8
Part One

VIII. This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, 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

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The Morning Devotional: WCF 21.7
The Morning Devotional: WCF 21.7

The Morning Devotional for July 19, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 21.7

VII. As it is of the law of nature that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by 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:a 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,b which in Scripture is called the Lord’s day,c and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian Sabbath.d

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