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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.
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.
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 alotted 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.
I do not question but that Worship by the godly is performed to God every day of the week; yea, and every night too, and that time is appointed or allowed of God for the performance of such Worship. But this time is not fixed to the same moment or ho•• universally, but is left to the discretion of the Believers, as their frame of Spirit, or ⟨p. 50⟩Occasions, or Exigencies, or Temptations, or Duty shall require.
I do not question but that Worship by the godly is performed to God every day of the week; yea, and every night too, and that time is appointed or allowed of God for the performance of such Worship. But this time is not fixed to the same moment or ho universally, but is left to the discretion of the Believers, as their frame of Spirit, or