How Is the Sabbath to Be Sanctified?

Answ. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a
holy resting all that day,, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful
on, other days; and spending the whole time
in the public and private exercises of God’s
worship, except so much as is to be taken up
in the works of necessity and mercy.

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