Who defines the continental view and where did this idea of Sabbath receations being allowable come from? Not from Calvin; and I don't recall John Primus advocating it (a recent Reformed scholar of Calvin's view and the Puritan view as expounded by Nicholas Bownd). So where does it come from?

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The Regulative Principle: Samuel Miller gives a succinct statement of this principle when he writes that since the Scriptures are the “only infallible rule of faith and practice, no rite or ceremony ought to have a place in the public worship of God, which is not warranted in Scripture, either by direct precept or example, or by good and sufficient inference.”

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