Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day

Chapter 22 lays out the regulative principle of worship — the conviction that the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men.

It also confesses the Lord’s Day — the first day of the week, the day of Christ’s resurrection — as the Christian Sabbath, to be kept holy unto the Lord by a holy resting all that day from worldly employments and recreations, taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship.

Together these convictions shape every Lord’s Day at Pray’s Mill. See Corporate Worship and our article on the Lord’s Day.

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For the full text of this chapter with scripture proofs, see the1689confession.com or Founders Ministries.