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Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…
Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the first day of the week is the true Christian-sabbath / by John Bunyan.Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the first day of the week is the true Christian-sabbath / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Nath. Ponder, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The matter therefore, to wit, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thy ⟨p. 34⟩self, is everlasting, (Mark 12. 29, 30, 31.) and is not from Sinai, nor from the two Tables of stone, but in Nature; for this Law commenced and took being and place that day in which man was created: Yea, it was concreate with him, and without it he cannot be a rational creature, as he was in the day in which God created him. But for the ministration of it from Sinai, with the Circumstances belonging to that ministration, they are not Moral, not Everlasting, but Shadowish and Figurative only.
The matter therefore, to wit, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thy ⟨p. 34⟩self, is everlasting, (Mark 12. 29, 30, 31.) and is not from Sinai, nor from the two Tables of stone, but in Nature; for this Law commenced and took being and place that day in which man was created: Yea, it was concreate with him, and without it he cannot be a rational creature, as he was in the day in which God created him. But for the ministration of it from Sinai, with the Circumstances belonging to that ministration, they are not Moral, not Everlasting, but Shadowish and Figurative onely.
That Ministration cannot be Moral for three Reasons.