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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.
And, I say again, since from the resurrection of Christ to this day, the Church then did receive upon the first day, (but as we read, upon no other) such glorious things as we have mentioned, it is enough to beget in the hearts of them that love the Son of God, a high esteem of the first day of the week. But how much more, when there shall be joined to these, proof that it was the custom of the first Gospel-Church, the Church of Christ at Jerusalem, after our Lord was risen; ⟨p. 84⟩to assemble together to wait upon God on the first day of the Week with their Lord as leader.
And, I say again, since from the resurrection of Christ to this day, the Church then did receive upon the first day, (but as we read, upon no other) such glorious things as we have mentioned, it is enough to beget in the hearts of them that love the Son of God, a high esteem of the first day of the week. But how much more, when there shall be joyned to these, proof that it was the custom of the first Gospel-Church, the Church of Christ at Jerusalem, after our Lord was risen; ⟨p. 84⟩to assemble together to wait upon God on the first day of the Week with their Lord as leader.
To say little more to this head, but only to repeat what is written of this day of old, to wit, that it should be proclaimed the self same day, to wit, the morrow after the Sabbath, which is the first day of the Week, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: you shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings, Levit. 23. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
To say little more to this head, but onely to repeat what is written of this day of old, to wit, that it should be proclaimed the self same day, to wit, the morrow after the Sabbath, which is the first day of the Week, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: you shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings,