Warren is indeed an old and dear friend and I agreed with him for many years until I read the sources and history of the Sabbath question for myself. I have since come to the conclusion that the Reformed confessions are correct. There is a good bit of patristic evidence for a weekly, Christian, Sunday Sabbath observance. Yes, there were periods and circumstances when it just wasn't possible, e.g. under persecution or in the case of slaves, but the great thing that folks forget is that the Sabbath was not simply a Mosaic institution. It was a creational institution which transcended Moses. When the early church remembered creation, and thought about it correctly, it observed the Sabbath and the new creation in Christ.

I did a lecture on this a year ago Jan at the sem and it's available or should be at the WSC bookstore (Westminster Seminary California). The substance of that material and more is due out in Nov, Dv.

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