WSC 62
Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day.
Proof texts
- Ex. 20:9,11 — [9] Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, [11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
For discussion
- The Assembly cited Ex. 20:9,11 in support of this answer. Read it in context — how does it bear on what is claimed here?
- WLC Q100 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
- WLC Q120 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
- The Assembly divided over this: Justification and the Antinomian Crisis. How do you secure sola fide without letting the law fall away? What turns on the answer?