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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.
Thus then you see how the Gentile-Churches did use to break bread, not on the old Sabbath, but on the first day of the week. And, I say, they had it from the Church of Jerusalem, where the Apostles were first seated, and beheld the way of their Lord with their eyes.
Now, I say, since we have so ample an example, not only of the Church at Jerusalem, but also of the Churches of the Gentiles, for the keeping of the first day to the Lord, ⟨p. 93⟩and that as countenanced by Christ and his Apostles, we should not be afraid to tread in their steps, for their practice is the same with Law and Commandment. But
Now, I say, since we have so ample an example, not onely of the Church at Jerusalem, but also of the Churches of the Gentiles, for the keeping of the first day to the Lord, ⟨p. 93⟩and that as countenanced by Christ and his Apostles, we should not be afraid to tread in their steps, for their practice is the same with Law and Commandment. But
Fifthly, We will add to this another Text: Now, saith Paul, concerning the collection for the Saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come, 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2.
Fifthly, We will adde to this another Text: Now, saith Paul, concerning the collection for the Saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come,