02-23-2008, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by BaptistInCrisis  There are many non-sabbatarians who still recognize the sacredness of the Lord's Day, just not to the extent of the sabbatarian. The 1689 LBC states: Quote: |
The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations, but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.
| There are many non-sabbatarians who prepare their hearts beforehand, do not labor in their secular job, and devote the day to worship and fellowship. But they do not feel constrained to avoid a family BBQ or taking a nap in the afternoon. Would you define these individuals as partial sabbatarians, in that they view they day as sacred, albeit not strictly observed as some? | I don't think anyone says taking a nap is out of line. The WCF and the LBCF are essentially the same and are both sabbatarian and explicitly say Sunday is the Christian Sabbath. Maybe you are thinking of the applications in the Larger Catechism instead. Regardless, what is in view in this thread (at least as far as I am concerned) is the position that every day is the same and that it doesn't matter whether we worship on Sunday or Thursday. This really is the dominant position within evangelicalism, it seems to me. Witness all of the megachurches with their Saturday evening services and the popularity of those services and all of the money spent by churchgoers on the Sabbath at retail stores and restaurants. I am learning that even in many ostensibly confessional Reformed churches you will be looked at like you are old fashioned at best or a legalist at worst if you have a concern for keeping the Sabbath day holy. 
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Beware of a religion without holdfasts. But if I get a grip upon a doctrine they call me a bigot. Let them do so. Bigotry is a hateful thing, and yet that which is now abused as bigotry is a great virtue, and greatly needed in these frivolous times. I have been inclined lately to start a new denomination, and call it "the Church of the Bigoted." Spurgeon
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