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Calvin’s views on the Sabbath are the subject of claim and counterclaim. This book brings together two controversial themes: Calvin’s ideas on Church/state relationships and on the Sabbath. Richard Gaffin traces the development of Calvin’s beliefs through his comments and writings. Gaffin also helps us to understand the relationship between the Ten Commandments and the New Testament. Not only...

Thirdly, we come to those theories commonly known as Sabbatarian. Here the distinctive and basic element is that the fourth commandment is not merely a piece of Mosaic legislation but rather, along with the other elements of the Decalogue, is an expression of a creation ordinance. The weekly Sabbath, therefore, is not merely a Jewish institution and has not been abrogated by the coming of the New Testament dispensation. Its observance is universally and perpetually binding. In fact, the Sabbath had
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