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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.
2. You must understand that this Order is but additional, and now enjoined to fill up that which was ⟨p. 97⟩begun as to holy Exercise of religious Worship by the Churches long before.
2. You must understand that this Order is but additional, and now enjoyned to fill up that which was ⟨p. 97⟩begun as to holy Exercise of religious Worship by the Churches long before.
3. The universality of the duty being enjoined to this day, supposes that this day was universally kept by the Churches as holy already.
3. The universality of the duty being enjoyned to this day, supposes that this day was universally kept by the Churches as holy already.
4. And let him that scrupleth this, show me, if he can, that God by the mouth of his Apostles did ever command that all the Churches should be confined to this or that duty on such a day, and yet put no Sanction upon that day; or that he has commanded that this work should be done on the first day of the week, and yet has reserved other Church-Ordinances as a public solemnization of Worship to him, to be done of another day, as of a day more fit, more holy.
4. And let him that scrupleth this, shew me, if he can, that God by the mouth of his Apostles did ever command that all the Churches should be confined to this or that duty on such a day, and yet put no Sanction upon that day; or that he has commanded that this work should be done on the first day of the week, and yet has reserved other Church-Ordinances as a publick solemnization of Worship to him, to be done of another day, as of a day more fit, more holy.