Bulletin: 12 October 2008
The bulletin for this Lord’s Day is available here.
The Sabbath is not only called “holy,” but “holiness to the Lord,” (Ex. 31.15;) which shows that the day is exceedingly holy, and suitably our affections and hearts ought therefore so to be…. The Lord would have double honor from us this day; that as in the week time we are sinfully drowned in the cares of this world, and affections thereto, so upon every Sabbath we should be in a holy manner drowned in the cares, and affections of the things of God; and hence we are commanded to call the Sabbath our delight, and not to think our own thoughts, or do our own works this day. (Is. 58.13)
— Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticae