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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.
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.
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 compleat, 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 Meatofferings and Drink-offerings, &c.
And on the self same day they, were to proclaim that that first day, should be a holy Convocation unto them. The which the Apostles did, and grounded that their Proclamation so on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, not on Ceremonies, that at the same day they brought three thousand Souls▪ to God, Acts 2. 41.
Now what another signal was here put upon the first day of the week! the day in which our Lord rose from the dead, assembled with his Disciples, poured out so abundantly of the Spirit, and gathered even by the first draught,