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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.
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, Levit. 23. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
This Ceremony was about the Sheaf that was to be waved, and Bread of First-fruits, which was a type of Christ; for he is unto God the first-fruits of them that sleep, 1 Cor. 15. 20.
This Sheaf, or Bread, must not be waved on the old Seventh day, but on the morrow after, which is the first-day of the Week, the day in which Christ rose from the dead and waved himself as the First-fruits of ⟨p. 85⟩the Elect unto God. Now from this day they were to count seven Sabbaths complete, and on the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, which was the first day of the week again; and this Pentecost upon which we now are, then they was to have a new Meat-offering, with Meat-offerings and Drink-offerings, &c.