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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.
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.
But oh! the glory that then attended them, by the presence of the Holy Ghost among them: Never was such a thing done as was done on that first day till then. We will read the Text; And when the day ⟨p. 81⟩of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, as of fire: And it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,