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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.
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.
Hence it is said, And upon the first day of the week, when the Disciples were come together to break bread, &c. Acts 20. 7. This is a Text, that as to matter of fact, cannot be contradicted ⟨p. 88⟩by any, for the Text saith plainly they did so, the Disciples then came together to break bread, the Disciples among the Gentiles did so.