Question 68: What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?

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

Scripture Proofs

Exodus 20:9

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth... and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Genesis 2:2-3

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.