Sabbath
idea · 5 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the sabbath · the Sabbath · Sabbaths · holy-days · sabbath · the sabbaths · the seventh day
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Sabbath“doctrine”1 mention
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)
as namely, the doctrine of predestination, of free grace, of perseverance, of original sin remaining after baptism, of the sabbath, the doctrine against universal grace, election for faith foreseen, free-will against antichrist, non-residents, human inventions in God’s worship;
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The commanded day of rest, interpreted as prohibiting human labor while permitting acts done by God's own precept.
As even now there is a sure distinction of the sabbath, forbidding human works, not divine.
If Christ broke into the sabbath, he did it according to the example of the Creator — seeing that, in the siege of the city of Jericho, the ark of the testament being carried about the walls for eight days, even on the sabbath, by the precept of the Creator, the sabbath was destroyed by working, as those think who reckon this even of Christ, being ignorant that neither Christ destroyed the sabbath …
Stromata
The Sabbath, allegorized as continence and subordinated to love.
and love, which is lord of the Sabbath by a gnostic ascent, professes beneficence.
So the Sabbath, by abstinence from evils, seems to me to hint at continence, and at what it is by which man differs from beasts.
The Rights of War and Peace
The commanded day of rest, whose violation is treated as a uniquely severe religious offense.
— The fourth commandment presents us with an account of the creation of the world, to commemorate which God appointed the sabbath, commanding it to be observed with a degree of reverence above every other sacred institution.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The doctrine of strict Sabbath observance, one of the doctrines ministers were discouraged from preaching.
as namely, the doctrine of predestination, of free grace, of perseverance, of original sin remaining after baptism, of the sabbath, the doctrine against universal grace, election for faith foreseen, free-will against antichrist, non-residents, human inventions in God’s worship;
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The Jewish holy day, discussed as an exception to fasting practice.
Although you also sometimes continue the Sabbath—a day never to be fasted on except at the Passover, according to the reason rendered elsewhere.
Two weeks of Xerophagies in the year—and not whole ones, the Sabbaths and Lord's days being of course excepted—we offer to God, abstaining from those things which we do not reject but defer.