Last Monday evening I came across The Prayer Book of 1789, which was the first for the U. S. Episcopal Church and served the Church for over 100 years, until the revision of 1892. This book owed much to its predecessor, the English 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and, at least for the major services, is [...]
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O Day of Rest and Gladness
Posted: January 22, 2012 by Michael Dewalt in Lord's DayTags: Episcopal, Hymns, Lords Day, Sabbath
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Here are a few Lord’s Day quote I found interesting while reading today. Sir James Crichton-Browne, A British physician once said, We doctors, in the treatment of nervous disease, are now constantly compelled to prescribe periods of rest. Some periods are, I think, only Sundays in arrears. Samuel Wilberforce, son of William Wilberforce, and Anglican [...]
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Posted: April 3, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in London Baptist Confession, Lord's Day1. The light of nature shews that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all; is just, good and doth good unto all; and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the might. But the [...]
Understanding the Lord’s Day as the Christian Sabbath
Posted: March 27, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in Lord's Day, Sabbath, TheologyRobert Lewis Dabney, “The Christian Sabbath: Its Nature, Design, and Proper Observance” in Dabney’s Discussions, Volume I (Sprinkle reprint, 1982): pp. 496-550. The Presbyterian stalwart doggedly defends the classical Reformed position by exhaustively reviewing the Biblical texts to defend the fourth commandment as “moral and perpetual.” Of note is his exegetical review of “objection passages” like Romans [...]
An excerpt from the practical puritan, Thomas Watson from his title Heaven Taken by Storm: Part 6, by sanctifying the Lord’s Day and holy conversation. The sixth duty wherein we must offer violence to ourselves, is the religious sanctifying of the Lord’s day. That there should be a day of holy rest dedicated to God appears from [...]
Celebrate the Festival Day of Our Saviour’s Resurrection
Posted: March 13, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in Lord's Day, Sabbath107AD IGNATIUS: let every friend of Christ keep the Lord’s Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days of the week. (Ignatius, Epistle to the Magnesians, chp 9. Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. 1, pg. 62-63.) 130AD BARNABAS: Moreover God says to the Jews, ‘Your new moons and Sabbaths 1 [...]
Martin Luther: Holidays or Lord’s Days?
Posted: February 6, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in Lord's Day, Martin LutherIt is well known that most Lutherans have always retained as part of their service to God both the Lord’s day instituted by Christ as well as most of the major “holy days” instituted by the Papists. The practice is inconsistent with the principles laid down in the Formula of Concord which asserts, We believe, [...]
Understanding the (3rd) Use of the Law
Posted: January 29, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in Grace & Law, Lord's DayThis past week I have seen two things that have disgust me. One being “open letter” blog post, which totally takes away the meaning of a “letter.” Second, a misunderstanding of the Law. May Calvin remind us, The third use of the Law (being also the principal use, and more closely connected with its proper [...]
Deuteronomy 5:12-14: Keep the day of rest, to hallow it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy business: but the seventh day is the rest of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work therein. Now we must come to the second point which [...]
Thanks to Chris Donato for the below information… He writes, “That’s the question the introduction of this Perspectives volume on the Sabbath seeks to answer. In so doing, it sets up the rest of the book, which presents in point-counterpoint form the four most common views of the Sabbath commandment that have arisen throughout church history, [...]
