John Thomson (1690-1753) was an important early Irish-American Presbyterian minister who served as a missionary in Virginia and North Carolina. He was the primary author of the 1729 Adopting Act. His commentary on the Westminster Shorter Catechism was the first Presbyterian book ever published in the Southern United States (in Williamsburg, Virginia).
In this commentary, Thomson includes an extended discussion of what it means to remember the Sabbath Day, which itself is worth remembering today.
John Thomson, An Explication of the Shorter Catechism, Composed by the Assembly of Divines (1749), pp. 116-117 on WSC #60 ("How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?"):
Q. 8. What is imported in remembering the Sabbath Day?
A. It imports a remembering of God's Command to keep it.
Q. 9. When should we remember it?
A. We should remember it before it comes, when it is come, and after it is past.
Q. 10. How should we remember it before it comes?
A. By preparing our Hearts for it, and the Duties of it; and by a prudent ordering all our worldly Affairs, so as they may least hinder or distract us in our Sabbath's Work when it comes. Neh. 13.19, 21.
Q. 11. How should we remember the Sabbath when it comes?
A. By a diligent, sincere and serious addressing ourselves to the successive Performance of all the Duties of the Day in Season and due Order; and a watchful guarding against every Thing that may hinder, interrupt or distract us in or from these Duties. Isai. 58.13.
Q. 12. How should we remember the Sabbath after it is past?
A. By serious Meditation on these Subjects which we were employ'd about during the Sabbath; and by a penitent Reflection on our short-comings, together with a sincere Resolution to be more watchful and punctual in sanctifying succeeding Sabbaths.