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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 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 ⟨p. 62⟩to light through his so doing.
So then, that being the day of the Rest of the Son of God, it must needs be the day of the Rest of his Churches also. For God gave his resting day to his Church to be a Sabbath; and Christ rested from his own works as God did from his, therefore he also gave the day in which he rested from his Works, a Sabbath to the Churches, as did the Father. Not that there are TWO Sabbaths at once: The Fathers was imposed for a time, even until the Son's should come; yea, as I have showed you, even in the very time of its imposing it was also ordained to be done away. Hence he saith, that Ministration was to be done away, 2 Cor. 3. Therefore we plead not for two Sabbaths to be at one time, but that a succession of time was ordained to the New Testament-Saints, or Churches of the Gentiles, to worship God in; which time is that in