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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
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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.
5. If Charity, if a general Collection for the Saints in the Churches is commanded on this day, and on no other day but this day; for ⟨p. 98⟩Church-collection is commanded on no other, there must be a reason for it: And if that reason had not respect to the sanction of the day, I know not why the duty should be so strictly confined to it.
6. But for the Apostle now to give with this a particular command to the Churches to sanctify that day as holy unto the Lord, had been utterly superfluous; for that they already, and that by the countenance of their Lord and his Church at Jerusalem, had done.
6. But for the Apostle now to give with this a particular command to the Churches to sanctifie that day as holy unto the Lord, had been utterly superfluous; for that they already, and that by the countenance of their Lord and his Church at Jerusalem, had done.