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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.
It is therefore necessary, that this work be done on the first day of the week, for a comely close of the worship that we perform to the Lord our God on that day.
3. On the first day of the week, when the Church is performing of holy worship unto God, then that of Collection for the Saints is most meet to be performed; because then, in all likelihood, our hearts will be most warm with the divine Presence; consequently most open and free to contribute to the necessity ⟨p. 101⟩of the Saints. You know, that a man when his heart is open, is taken with some excellent thing; then, if at all, it is most free to do something for the promoting thereof.
Why, waiting upon God in the way of his appointments, opens, and makes fre•, the heart to the Poor: And because the first day of the week was it in which now such solemn Service to him was done, therefore also the Apostle commanded, that upon the same day also, as on a day most fit, this duty of collecting for the Poor should be done: For the Lord loves a cheerful giver, 2 Cor. 9. 6, 7.