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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.
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.
Nor is that day or time, by God so fixed on, in its own nature, better than any ⟨image 6⟩other: the holiness then of a Sabbath lies, not in the Nature or Place of a day, but in the Ordinance of God.
Nor doth our sanctifying of it, to the ends for which it is ordained, lie in a bare confession that it is such; but in a holy performance of the Duty of the day to God by Christ, according to his Word.
But I will not enlarge to detain the Reader longer ⟨image 7⟩from the following Sheets; but shall commit both him and them to the wise dispose of God, and rest,