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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.
I have also written upon this Subject, for that I would, as in other Gospel-truths, be a fellow witness with good men that the day in which our Lord rose from the dead should be much set by of Christians.
I have observed that some, otherwise sound in faith, are apt to be entangled with a Jewish Sabbath, &c. and that some also that are far off from the observation of that, have but little to say for their own practice though good; and might I help them I should be glad.
A Jewish Seventh-day-Sabbath has no promise of Grace belonging to it, if that be true (as to be sure it is) where Paul says, ⟨image 4⟩The command to honour Parents, is the first Commandment with promise, Ephes. 6. 1, 2, 3.
Also it follows from hence, that the Sabbath that has a promise annexed to the keeping of it is rather that which the Lord Jesus shall give to the Churches of the Gentiles,