A Puritan Catechism

[Garland-Green]

I am persuaded that the use of a good Catechism in all our families will be a great safeguard against the increasing errors of the times, and therefore I have compiled this little manual from the Westminster Assembly's and Baptist Catechisms, for the use of my own church and congregation. Those who use it in their families or classes must labour to explain the sense; but the words should be carefully learned by heart, for they will be understood better as years pass.

May the Lord bless my dear friends and their families evermore, is the prayer of their loving Pastor.

C. H. Spurgeon

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15)


A Puritan Catechism


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A Puritan Catechism  

[real eyes realize]

There's an issue with question 50:

Quote:

50.

Q. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word, expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself (Lev. 19:30; Deut. 5:12).

If they are suggesting it can be any day of the week, then a note to everyone: that's not how God defines it.

• Genesis 2:2-3 (NIV)
  
  2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
  
  
  
• Exodus 16:26 (NIV)
  
  26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
  
  
  
• Matthew 28:1 (NIV)
  
  28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
  

Both the Old Testament and New Testament define the weekly Sabbath as the seventh day of the week; it's not just any day as long as we work the other six. It's the seventh.

The follow-up question is fine though.

Quote:

51.

Q. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days (Lev. 23:3), and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship (Ps. 92:1-2; Isa. 58:13-14), except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy (Matt. 12:11-12).

 

[Garland-Green]

real eyes realize

There's an issue with question 50:

Quote:

50.

Q. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word, expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself (Lev. 19:30; Deut. 5:12).

If they are suggesting it can be any day of the week, then a note to everyone: that's not how God defines it.

• Genesis 2:2-3 (NIV)
  
  2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
  
  
  
• Exodus 16:26 (NIV)
  
  26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
  
  
  
• Matthew 28:1 (NIV)
  
  28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
  

Both the Old Testament and New Testament define the weekly Sabbath as the seventh day of the week; it's not just any day as long as we work the other six. It's the seventh.

The follow-up question is fine though.

Quote:

51.

Q. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days (Lev. 23:3), and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship (Ps. 92:1-2; Isa. 58:13-14), except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy (Matt. 12:11-12).

I appreciate that you point out things unclear, or not quite right. Thank you.
It was written by Spurgeon for his friends and family.  

[SolaceSerenitySerendipity]

If that question was written by CH Spurgeon, you can rest assured that the "one whole day in seven" is in fact the Sabbath day, as testified to by the following question, which logically follows smile

" Spurgeon too like all the reformers believed the moral law of the Sabbath Day still continues and this is what Spurgeon said on keeping the Lord's Day.
1. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days (Lev. 23:3), and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship (Ps. 92:1-2; Isa. 58:13-14), except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy (Matt. 12:11-12). (Taken from Charles Spurgeon's Catechism)"

I know this was some time ago, but I hope this helps biggrin