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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.
But to pursue our design, we have a Duty enjoined, and that of no inferior sort: If charity be indeed, ⟨p. 94⟩as it is, the very bond of perfectness: and if without it ALL our doings, yea and sufferings too, are not worth so much as a rush, 1 Cor. 13. Coloss. 3. 14.
But to pursue our design, we have a Duty enjoyned, and that of no inferiour sort: If charity be indeed, ⟨p. 94⟩as it is, the very bond of perfectness: and if without it ALL our doings, yea and sufferings too, are not worth so much as a rush, 1 Cor. 13. Coloss. 3. 14.
We have here a Duty, I say, that a Seventh-day-sabbath, when enforce was not too big for it to be performed in.
The work now to be done, was, as you see, to bestow their charity upon the Poor; yea, to provide for time to come: And I say, it must be collected upon the first day of the week. Upon THE first day; not A first day, as signifying one or two, but upon THE first day, even every first day; for so your ancient Bibles have it; also our later must be so understood, or else Paul had left them to whom he did write, utterly at a loss. For if he intended not every first day, and yet did not specify a particular one, it could hardly even a been understood which first day he meant: But we need not