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Tom,

Evidently we are NOT in agreement since I made it clear that I do not see obscurity in Calvin's thoughts on the Sabbath when once considers ALL that he wrote and in CONTEXT. Thus, when someone who provides a quote that appears that Calvin didn't hold to the Sabbatarian view of the WCF, it is done with the expressed intent to confuse the informed reader by taking the quote either out of context and/or in isolation from Calvin's other writings on this subject. It seems obvious that this person's presupposition, according to what he also wrote, is that the Fourth Commandment is to be relegated to the Ceremonial Law and not to the Moral Law, which I have already stated here and on numerous other occasions when this subject has been discussed, is exegetically impossible. Have you actually read the source material from which this individual and others quote from?? If you have/had then it should be evident that Calvin's view of the Sabbath is inline with the Puritans and the WCF and other Reformed Confessions.

Again, I will make an effort to try and gain permission to republish the article "John Calvin, the Nascent Sabbatarian: A Reconsideration of Calvin's View of Two Key Sabbath-Issues". The article was published in [i]The Confessional Presbyterian[/i], volume 3 - 2007. The author, Steward E. Lauer quotes from Gaffin and deals more than adequately with Gaffin's conclusion, which in the end is to be rejected in that it is inaccurate.

IF <--- I am given permission to reproduce this article, once it is done and web-ready on The Highway, I will announce its arrival in the appropriate forum.