Sabbath and Rest: The Puritan Sabbath: Delight, Not Drudgery
Teaching on Sabbath and Rest from Westminster Assembly: The Puritan Sabbath: Delight, Not Drudgery
This is a spiritual discipline on sabbath delight and puritan practice, drawing on Isaiah 58:13-14, Mark 2:27 and Exodus 20:8-11.
The Puritans took Sabbath-keeping seriously but understood it primarily as delight, not deprivation. The Westminster Confession (1646) teaches that the Sabbath is to be spent "in the public and private exercises of God's worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy." The Westminster Larger Catechism (Q. 117) says the Sabbath is to be sanctified by "holy resting all the day, not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful."…
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