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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.
QUEST. V. Since it is denied that the Seventh-day-Sabbath is moral, and is found it is not to abide as a Sabbath for ever in the Church, What time is to be fixed on for New Testament-Saints to perform together, Divine Worship to God by Christ in?
Upon this Question hangs the stress of all, as to the Subject now under consideration: But before I can speak distinctly to it, I must premise, as I have in order to my speaking to the Questions before, something for the better clearing of our way.
UPon this Question hangs the stress of all, as to the Subject now under consideration: But before I can speak distinctly to it, I must premise, as I have in order to my speaking to the Questions before, something for the better clearing of our way.
1. Then, we are not now speaking of all manner of worshipping ⟨p. 57⟩God, nor of all times in which all manner of worship is to be performed; but of that Worship, which is Church-worship, or Worship that is to be performed by the Assembly of Saints, when by the will of God they in all parts of his Dominion assemble together to worship him; which Worship hath a prefixed time allotted to, or for its performance, and without which it cannot, according to the mind of God, be done. This is the time, I say, that we are to discourse of, and not of ALL time appointed for all manner of Worship.