Did it allow or disallow liturgies, or hymns, or the Lord’s Prayer, or the Apostles’ Creed, or funeral sermons, or a special sermon on Christmas day? Puritans did not speak with a single voice on these issues.3 One interesting theological conviction that many historians think was almost exclusively Puritan was Sabbatarianism—a belief that the Christian Sunday was essentially identical with the Old Testament Sabbath, and should be rigorously kept as a day of rest-for-worship, neither work nor recreation