The Westminster Assembly, while not condemning it as a sin, advised in its directory for public worship "that it be not on the Lord's day." In the Scottish church at the first reformation this was not the case. The first book of discipline says: "The Sunday before sermon we think most convenient for marriage, and it to be used no day else without the consent of the whole ministry." It may be [the change was due to] practical experience that the celebratory nature of the event simply was too difficult to restrain to anything appropriate for the Lord's day?

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Chris Coldwell, Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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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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