Remembering the Lord’s Day
Engelsma defends the Reformed doctrine of the Lord's Day as a creation ordinance and binding moral obligation, arguing against contemporary denials of a special day of rest. The pamphlet grounds this practice in Scripture, the Fourth Commandment, and the Reformed confessions (Heidelberg Catechism and Westminster Confession), presenting Sabbath observance as essential to public worship, family life, and Christian sanctification.
Preface Great issues are at stake in the Sabbath-question. And, alas, it is a question today, not merely in a society that, having once showed some influence upon it from Christianity by “closing up shop” on Sunday, now works and plays on the Lord’s Day as on any other day, but also among Reformed Christians. It is serious enough that the Sabbath is desecrated in practice—the poor attendance at the second worship service (where a second service is still held) and the extent to which professing...