Exodus 20
“8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
This tells us the reason for observing the Sabbath, citing the work of God in Creation.
It would stand to reason that men who were obedient to God generally observed his ordinances, e.g., bearing children, being a good steward of that which he was given dominion over, etc., without every obedience being specifically mentioned.
The New Testament documents that the Apostolic Church observed the Christian Sabbath, the first day of the week, the day after the Israelite Sabbath, the last day of the week.
Acts 20:7 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”
1 Corinthians 16:2 “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
Revelation 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”
There are many good Reformed scholarly writings which comment on Scripture in this regard.
“It would stand to reason that men who were obedient to God generally observed his ordinances, e.g., bearing children, being a good steward of that which he was given dominion over, etc., without every obedience being specifically mentioned”
It would stand to reason if any ordinance before Exodus to keep the Sabbath was ever given. The commands you cite were given in Genesis 1 and it would be reasonable to assume they were followed. Not so with the Sabbath. It would be like saying George Washington followed the law, therefore he kept the speed limit. Adam, Noah and Abraham were not given any ordinance concerning the Sabbath and they did not keep the Sabbath. So the Sabbath definitely was not a creation ordinance.
Next, you better check your security system, I think you were hacked. A poster using your name in this thread said the 4th commandment has not been abrogated........yet your last post gives examples of the Church worshipping on the first day of the week and NOT keeping the 7th day Sabbath.
Can you reconcile the two? The 4th commandment specifically mentions “the seventh day”, not the first. Yet, we don’t find Christians keeping the 4th commandment. What happened?