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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.
I have here, by handling four Questions, proved, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was not moral. For that must of necessity be done, before it can be made appear that the First day of the week is that ⟨image 5⟩which is the Sabbath day for Christians. But withal it follows, that if the Seventh-day-sabbath was not moral, the first day is not so. What is it then? Why a Sabbath for holy worship is moral; but this or that day appointed for such service, is sanctified by Precept or by approved Example. The timing then of a Sabbath for us lies in God, not man; in Grace, not Nature; nor in the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones: ⟨image 6⟩God always reserving to himself a power to alter and change both time and modes of worship according to his own will.
I have here, by handling four Questions, proved, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was not moral. For that must of necessity be done, before it can be made appear that the First day of the week is that ⟨image 5⟩which is the Sabbath day for Christians. But withal it follows, that if the Seventh-day-sabbath was not moral, the first day is not so. What is it then? Why a Sabbath for holy worship is moral; but this or that day appointed for such service, is sanctified by Precept or by approved Example. The timeing then of a Sabbath for us lies in God, not man; in Grace, not Nature; nor in the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones: ⟨image 6⟩God always reserving to himself a power to alter and change both time and modes of worship according to his own will.
A Sabbath then, or day of rest from worldly affairs to solemnize worship to God in, all good men do by nature conclude is meet, yea, necessary: yet that, not Nature, but God reveals.