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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.
First, The Church was now, as on other, first days, all with one accord in one place. We read not that they came together by virtue of any precedent Revelation, nor by Accident, but contrariwise by Agreement; they was to gather with one accord, or by appointment, in pursuance of their duty, setting apart that day, as they had done the first days afore, to the holy service of their blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
First, The Church was now, as on other, first days, all with one accord in one place. We read not that they came together by vertue of any precedent Revelation, nor by Accident, but contrarywise by Agreement; they was to gather with one accord, or by appointment, in pursuance of their duty, setting apart that day, as they had done the first days afore, to the holy service of their blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Secondly, We read that this meeting of theirs was not begun on the old Sabbath, but when Pentecost was fully come: the Holy Ghost intimating, that they had left now, and begun to leave, the Seventh-day-sabbath to the unbelieving Jews.
Thirdly, Nor did the Holy Ghost come down upon them till every moment of the old Sabbath was past, Pentecost, as was said, was FULLY come first: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, and then, &c.