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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.
Nor do I find that our Protestant Writers, notwithstanding their reverence of the Sabbath, do conclude otherwise; but that though time, as to worshipping God, must needs be contained in the bowels of the moral Law, as moral; yet they for ⟨p. 46⟩good reasons forbear to affix the seventh day as that time there too. They do it, I say, for good reasons, reasons drawn from the Scripture; or rather, for that the Scripture draws them so to conclude: yet they cast not away the morality of a Sabbath of rest to the Church. It is to be granted then, that time for Gods Worship abideth for ever, but the seventh day vanishes as a shadow and sign; because such indeed it was, as the Scripture above cited declares as to the Sanction thereof as a Sabbath.
The Law of Nature then calls for Time; but the God of Nature assigns it, and has given power to his Son to continue SUCH time as himself shall by his eternal Wisdom judge most meet for the Churches of the Gentiles to solemnize Worship to God by him in. Hence he is said to be Lord even of the sabbath day, Matth. 12. 9.
Sixthly, I find by reading Gods ⟨p. 47⟩Word, that Paul by Authority Apostolical, takes away the Sanctions of all the Jews Festivals and Sabbaths.