Question 67 of 114
The Duty God Requires of Man
What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
Answer
The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, are God's allowing us six days of the week for our own lawful employments (), his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day ().
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- Exodus 20:9
- Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
- Exodus 20:11
- For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.