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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.
Now God rested from his Works, and sanctified a day of rest to himself, as a signal of that Rest; which day he also gave to his Church as a day of holy rest likewise. And if Christ thus rested from his own Works, (and the Holy Ghost says he did thus rest) he also hath sanctified a day to himself, as that in which he hath finished his Work, and given it also to his Church to be an everlasting Memento of his ⟨p. 61⟩so doing, and that they should keep it holy for his sake.
And see! as the Fathers work was first, so his day went before; and as the Sons work came after, so his day accordingly succeeded. The Fathers day was on the Seventh day from the Creation, the Sons the First day following.
Nor may this be slighted, because the Text says, as God finished his Work, so Christ finished his; He also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. He rested, I say, as God did; but God rested on his resting day, and therefore so did Christ. Not that he rested on the Fathers resting day; for 'tis evident, that then he had great part of his work to do; for he had not as then got his conquest over Death, but the next day he also entered into his Rest, having by his rising again, finished his Work, viz. made a Conquest over the Powers of darkness, and brought Life and Immortality ⟨p. 62⟩to light through his so doing.
Nor may this be slighted, because the Text says, as God finished his Work, so Christ finished his; He also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. He rested, I say, as God did; but God rested on his resting day, and therefore so did Christ. Not that he rested on the Fathers resting day; for 'tis evident, that then he had great part of his work to do; for he had not as then got his conquest over Death, but the next day he also entred into his Rest, having by his rising again, finished his Work, viz. made a Conquest over the Powers of darkness, and brought Life and Immortality