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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.
By this last clause of the Verse, [Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind] he doth plainly declare, that such days are now stripped of their Sanction: For none of Gods Laws, while they retain their Sanction, are left to the will and mind of the believers, as to whether they will observe them or no. Men, I say, are not left to their liberty in such a case; for when a stamp of Divine Authority is upon a Law, and abides, so long we are bound, not to our mind, but to that Law: ⟨p. 48⟩But when a thing, once sacred, has lost its sanction, then it falls, as to Faith and Conscience, among other common or indifferent things. And so the Seventh-day-sabbath did. Again.
By this last clause of the Verse, [Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind] he doth plainly declare, that such days are now stript of their Sanction: For none of Gods Laws, while they retain their Sanction, are left to the will and mind of the believers, as to whether they will observe them or no. Men, I say, are not left to their liberty in such a case; for when a stamp of Divine Authority is upon a Law, and abides, so long we are bound, not to our mind, but to that Law: ⟨p. 48⟩But when a thing, once sacred, has lost its sanction, then it falls, as to Faith and Conscience, among other common or indifferent things. And so the Seventh-day-sabbath did. Again.
Seventhly, Thus Paul writes to the Church of Coloss. Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of any holy day, or of the new Moon, or of the Sabbath: which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ, Coloss. 2. 16, 17. Here also, as he serveth other Holy-days, he serveth the Sabbath: He gives a liberty to believers to refuse the observation of it, and commands that no man should judge against them for their so doing. And as you read, the reason of his so doing is, because the body, the substance is come: Christ, saith he, is the Body, or that which these things were a shadow or figure of. The Body is Christ.