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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.
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, ⟨p. 86⟩that his Fishermen made by the Gospel, such a number of Souls to God.
Thus then they proclaimed, and thus they gathered sinners on the first First day that they preached; for though they had assembled together over and over with their Lord before therein, yet they began not jointly to preach until this first day Pentecost.
Thus then they proclaimed, and thus they gathered sinners on the first First day that they preached; for though they had assembled together over and over with their Lord before therein, yet they began not joyntly to preach until this first day Pentecost.
Now, after this the Apostles to the Churches did never make mention of a Seventh-day-sabbath. For as the Wave-sheaf and the Bread of First-fruits were a figure of the Lord Jesus, and the waving, of his life from the dead: So that morrow after the Sabbath on which the Jews waved their Sheaf, was a figure of that in which our Lord did rise; consequently, when their morrow after the Sabbath ceased, our morrow after that began, and so has continued a blessed morrow after their Sabbath, as a holy Sabbath to Christians ⟨p. 87⟩from that time ever since.