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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 why should the Holy Ghost thus precisely speak of their assembling together upon the first day, if not to confirm us in this, that the Lord had chosen that day for the new Sabbath of his Church? Surely the Apostles knew what they did in their meeting together upon that day; yea, and the Lord Jesus also; for that he used SO to visit them when SO assembled, made his practice a Law unto them: For Practice is enough for us New Testament Saints, specially when the Lord Jesus himself is in the head of that practice, and that after he rose from the dead.
Perhaps some may stumble at the word [after] after eight days; but ⟨p. 78⟩the meaning is, at the conclusion of the eighth day, or when they had spent in a manner the whole of their Sabbath in waiting upon their Lord, then in comes their Lord, and finisheth that their days service to him with confirming of Thomas's faith, and by letting drop other most heavenly treasure among them. Christ said, he must lie three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth, yet 'tis evident, that he rose the third day, 1 Cor. 15. 4.
We must take then a part for the whole, and conclude, that from the time that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, to the time that he showed his Hands and his Side to Thomas, eight days were almost expired; that is, he had sanctified unto them two first days, and had accepted that service they had performed to him therein, as he testified by giving of them so blessed a farewell at the conclusion of both those days.
We must take then a part for the whole, and conclude, that from the time that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, to the time that he shewed his Hands and his Side to Thomas, eight days were almost expired; that is, he had sanctified unto them two first days, and had accepted that service they had performed to him therein, as he testified by giving of them so blessed a farewel at the conclusion of both those days.