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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 › Objection
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Obj. But Paul preached frequently on the old Sabbath, and that after the Resurrection of Christ.
Answ. To the unbelieving Jews and their Proselytes, I grant he did. But we read not that he did it to ⟨p. 105⟩any New Testament-Church on that day: nor did he celebrate the instituted worship of Christ in the Churches on that day. For Paul, who had before cast out the Ministration of death; as that which had no glory, would not now take thereof any part for New Testament instituted worship; for he knew that that would veil the Heart, and blind the Mind from that, which yet instituted Worship was ordained to discover.
He preached then on the Seventh-day-sabbath, of a divine and crafty love to the salvation of the unbelieving Jews.
He preached then on the Seventhday-sabbath, of a divine and crafty love to the salvation of the unbelieving Jews.
I say, he preached now on that day to them and their Proselytes, because that day was theirs by their estimation: He did it, I say, of great love to their Souls, that if possible, he might save some of them.