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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
QUESTIONS About the NATURE and PERPE TUITY Of the Seventh-day-Sabbath. › Question 5 › Answer
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.
Answ. The names of all those days in which he so did are obliterate and blotted out, that they might not be idolized; for Christ did not set them apart for worship, but this day, the first day of the Week, by its name is kept alive in the Church, the Holy Ghost surely signifying thus much, that how hidden soever other days were, Christ would have his day, the first day had in everlasting remembrance among Saints.
Churches also meet together now on the Week-days, and have the ⟨p. 80⟩presence of Christ with them too in their employments; but that takes not off from them the sanction of the first day of the Week, no more than it would take away the sanction of the old Seventh day, had it still continued holy to them: wherefore this is no let or objection to hinder our sanctifying of the first day of the Week to our God. But
Thirdly, Add to this, that upon Pentecost, which was the first day of the Week, mention is made of their being together again: For Pentecost was always the morrow after the Sabbath, the old Seventh-day-sabbath. Upon this day, I say, the Holy Ghost saith, they were again with one accord together in one place.
Thirdly, Adde to this, that upon Pentecost, which was the first day of the Week, mention is made of their being together again: For Pentecost was always the morrow after the Sabbath, the old Seventh-day-sabbath. Upon this day, I say, the Holy Ghost saith, they were again with one accord together in one place.