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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 › Question
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.
Quest. But is there yet another reason why this holy duty should, in special as it is, be commanded to be performed on the first day of the week?
Answ. Yes: For that now the Churches were come together in their respective places, the better to agree about Collections, and to gather them. You know Church-worship is a duty so long as we are in the world, and so long also is this of making Collections for the Saints. And for as much as the Apostle speaks here, as I have hinted afore, of a Church-collection, When is it more fit to be done, than when the Church is come together upon the first day of the Week to worship God?
Answ. Yes: For that now the Churches were come together in their respective places, the better to agree about Collections, and to gather them. You know Churchworship is a duty so long as we are in the world, and so long also is this of making Collections for the Saints. And for as much as the Apostle speaks here, as I have hinted afore, of a Church-collection, When is it more fit to be done, than when the Church is come together upon the first day of the Week to worship God?
2. This part of Worship is most comely to be done upon the first day of the week, and that at the close of that days work: For thereby the Church shows, not only her thankfulness to God for a Sabbath-days mercy, but also returneth him, by giving to the Poor, that Sacrifice for their benefit that is most behoveful to make manifest their professed subjection to Christ,