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name: The Synod of Dort on Sabbath Observance
publication_year: 1618
type: document
markdown: true
chapters:
  - name: ''
    text: |
      Rules on the observation of the Sabbath, or the Lord’s Day, with the
      agreement of the brothers from Zeeland the following concepts were
      explained and approved by Doctor Professors of Divinity.      

  - name: I.
    text: |
      In the fourth Commandment of the divine law, part is ceremonial, part is
      moral.      

  - name: II.
    text: |
      The rest of the seventh day after creation was ceremonial and its rigid
      observation peculiarly prescribed to the Jewish people.      

  - name: III.
    text: |
      Moral in fact, because the fixed and enduring day of the worship of God is
      appointed, for as much rest as is necessary for the worship of God and
      holy meditation of him.      

  - name: IV.
    text: |
      With the Sabbath of the Jews having been abrogated, the Lord’s Day is
      solemnly sanctified by Christians.      

  - name: V.
    text: |
      From the time of the Apostles this day was always observed in the ancient
      Catholic Church.      

  - name: VI.
    text: |
      This same day is thus consecrated for divine worship, so that in it one
      might rest from all servile works (with these excepted, which are works of
      charity and pressing necessity) and from those recreations which impede
      the worship of God.      
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