tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post4301127132757661196..comments2023-11-03T17:20:18.270-07:00Comments on William & Mary Dyer: How Sabbath and ‘The Book of Sports’ drove 35,000 Puritans to AmericaChristy K Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988458745832012138noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post-12773154103427835852015-06-14T21:06:33.189-07:002015-06-14T21:06:33.189-07:00Responses from Facebook:
C Brown—I read through ...Responses from Facebook: <br /><br />C Brown—I read through the article. Now tell me if I'm interpreting this incorrectly: the Puritans rebelled b/c the King (& his church) gave the parishioners too much liberty on the Sabbath? And left the country over it? In today's world most people love to have liberty, but you have to try to think like a Puritan, it appears. The stricter & harsher they were on their church goers the better, right?? I cannot wrap my modern mind around suffering a torturous crossing of the Atlantic b/c some others were having too much fun on Sunday.<br /><br />Christy K Robinson—Yes, it was that, BUT also that the King was trying to force them to use the Book of Common Prayer, and use the Anglican liturgy. The Puritans weren't a separate denomination (that wasn't allowed). They were trying to purify the Anglican church as far away from Catholicism (the mother of the Anglican and Lutheran churches only a few decades before) as possible, and the BCP was too similar for their tastes. Further, they believed in the entire Sabbath commandment about not working, and keeping the day strictly reserved for sacred thoughts and activities, so a pleasurable half-day was horribly worldly. They believed that the King was forcing them to sin against God by breaking the holiness of the Sabbath. They were more worried about heaven and hell for eternity, than their short life on earth, so they followed the letter of Old Testament biblical law. <br />Christy K Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988458745832012138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post-39389738320453026892015-06-14T21:03:06.404-07:002015-06-14T21:03:06.404-07:00Responses from Facebook:
S DeVore—Very interest...Responses from Facebook: <br /><br />S DeVore—Very interesting article. I didn't know this about the Sabbath.<br /><br />Christy K Robinson—Other names for it were First Day and Lord's Day. They didn't want to call the days by pagan gods. But in my reading, it was most often called the Sabbath.<br /><br />S DeVore—It's amazing that they were willing to abide by the Roman change from the Biblical 7th day to the 1st day.<br /><br />Christy K Robinson—That was one of the big issues in both the Bownd book of 1595, and of the Rev. John Robinson book published in 1625. They bolstered their claims by saying that the resurrection, Pentecost, and the practice of the apostles meeting on the First Day were the New Testament Sabbath. It was also discussed at the Westminster theology convocation in the 1640s. <br />(Rev. John Cotton longed to attend that Westminster conference in England, but wasn't allowed. I suspect that Winthrop and others were afraid Cotton wouldn't come back to Boston when it was over.)<br />So why don't most modern first-day churches consider the whole day as sacred? They go to church, then work or play or have family time. Because they say that Sunday church attendance is biblical tradition for fellowship, study, and corporate worship, but it's not the new Sabbath, because the Sabbath of the New Covenant is resting--all the time, every day, *today*--in a completed salvation in Jesus Christ (Hebrews chapter 4, the better Sabbath).<br />Christy K Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988458745832012138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post-46101302893825633242015-06-14T21:00:09.521-07:002015-06-14T21:00:09.521-07:00Responses from Facebook:
Stephen Lillioja—Very in...Responses from Facebook:<br /><br />Stephen Lillioja—Very interesting discussion <br /><br />Ken Horn—Thoroughly enjoyed every word of this article. <br /><br />K W Hartwick—Good information, who knew that how you kept your holy day could start a new nation.<br />Christy K Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988458745832012138noreply@blogger.com