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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, 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.
Fourthly, We come yet more close to the custom of Churches; I mean, to the custom of the Churches of the Gentiles; for as yet we have spoken but of the practice of the Church of God which was at Jerusalem; only we will add, that the Customs that were laudable & binding with the Church at Jerusalem, were with reverence to be imitated by the Churches of the Gentiles; for there was but one Law of Christ for them both to worship by.
Now then, to come to the point, to wit, that it was the custom of the Churches of the Gentiles, on the first day of the week, but upon no other that we read of, to come together to perform divine Worship to their Lord.