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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.
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.
Thus you see that the solemnizing of a first day to holy uses was not limited to, though first preached by the Church that was at Jerusalem. The Church at Jerusalem was the Mother-church, and not that at. Rome, as some falsely imagine; for from this Church went out the Law and the holy Word of God to the Gentiles. Wherefore it must be supposed that this meeting of the Gentiles on the first day of the Week to break bread, came to them by holy tradition from the Church at Jerusalem, since they were the first that kept the first day as holy unto the Lord their God.
And indeed, they had the best advantage to do it; for they had their Lord in the head of them to back them to it by his presence and preaching thereon.