D.v. I’m going to be preaching soonish on the 4th commandment. I’m planning to say we should keep it.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should read or listen to on the Sabbath?
Time and money will be limited. I’m wondering about getting hold of a couple of the following:
R. T. Beckwith & J. Stott, This is the Day (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1978)
Don Carson (ed.), From Sabbath to Lord's Day: A Biblical, Historical and Theological Investigation (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1999)
Walter Chantry, Call the Sabbath a Delight (Banner of Truth, 1991)
Jonathan Edwards, Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath
Richard Gaffin, Calvin and the Sabbath: The controversy of applying the fourth commandment (Mentor, 1999)
Richard Gaffin, 'Westminster and the Sabbath' in The WC into the 21st C ed. Lingon Duncan III (Mentor, 2003) - on the eschatological argument (that our rest is wholly future in Christ)
On Heb 4, 'A Sabbath Still Awaits the People of God' in Pressing Towards the Mark ed., Dennison & Gamble (Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1986)
John Owen, A Treatise On The Sabbath / "Exercitations Concerning a Day of Sacred Rest." (Works volume 18) Banner of Truth Edition
Joseph Pipa, The Lord's Day: How Did You Spend Last Sunday? (Christian Focus, 1997)
Bruce Ray, Celebrating the Sabbath (P&R, 2000)
Keith Weber, Lord of the Sabbath (Day One, 2007)
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I'm pretty sure Frame addresses it in his Doctrine of the Christian Life. Not sure where he comes down on it.
Just read one of your other posts and realised you've already/ are reading Frame anyway.
The treatise by Owen is in volume 18. "Exercitations Concerning a Day of Sacred Rest."
The full title is:
CONCERNING A DAY
OF SACRED REST
WHEREIN
THE ORIGINAL OF THE SABBATH FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THE
MORALITY OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, WITH THE CHANGE OF THE
SEVENTH DAY, ARE INQUIRED INTO;
TOGETHER WITH
AN ASSERTION OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTION OF THE LORD’S DAY, AND
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR ITS DUE OBSERVATION.
Thanks, Steffan. Had completely missed that.
We seem to have lost the great art of title writing somewhere in the last 300 years or so.
Pleasure. For easier searching, you can buy the whole lot from AGES for £10.75, in electronic form. It's excellent stuff.
I have read a lot of people on the Sabbath and the person who seems to best understand the Sabbath is Meredith Kline - Sabbath as sacred time and space (covenantal coordination of time and space). Sabbath as a sign of consecration and consummation. The best places to read him on the Sabbath are in his Kingdom Prologue, Images of the Spirit and most importantly his newest book God, Heaven and Har Megaddon. You may not agree with all he says but he surely he cannot be ignored in this important matter.
Cheers,
Mark
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