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    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 lawful employments,a his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.b

    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 lawful employments,a his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.b

    1. a. Exodus 20:9

      Exodus 20:9

      20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

      20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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    2. b. Exodus 20:11

      Exodus 20:11

      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.

      20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

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    Question 67, sung: The Baptist Catechism Set to Music, Jim Scott Orrick
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    Changes from Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 62

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 62

    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 lawful employments, his challenging a special propriety in the a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 62

    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.

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 67

    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 lawful employments, his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 62

    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 lawful employments, his challenging a special propriety in the a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 62

    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.

    The Baptist Catechism (modernized) (1695), Question 67

    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 lawful employments, his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.

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    Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

    Question 120

    What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?

    The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, are taken from the equity of it, God allowing us six days of seven for our own affairs, and reserving but one for himself, in these words, Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: from God’s challenging a special propriety in that day, The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: from the example of God, who in six days made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: and from that blessing which God put upon that day, not only in sanctifying it to be a day for his service, but in ordaining it to be a means of blessing to us in our sanctifying it; Wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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