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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
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.
Obj. But if the Seventh-day-sabbath is, as you say, to be laid aside by the Churches of the Gentiles, Why doth Christ say to his, Pray that your flight be not in the Winter, nor on the Sabbath day? For, say some, by this saying it appears, that the old Seventh-day-sabbath, as you have-called it, will as to the Sanction of it, abide in force after Christ is ascended into heaven.
Answ. I say first, These words was spoken to the Jewish Christians, not to the Gentile-churches: And the reason of this first hint, you will see clearer afterwards.
The Jews had several Sabbaths; as their Seventh-day-sabbath, their Monthly Sabbaths, their Sabbath of Years, and their Jubilee, (Levit. 25.) Now if he means their ordinary Sabbaths, or that called the Seventh-day-sabbath, why doth he join the Winter thereto? for in that he joineth the Winter with that Sabbath that he exhorteth them to pray their flight might not be in, ⟨p. 109⟩it should seem that the meaneth rather their Sabbath of Years, or their Jubilee, which did better answer one to another than one day and a winter could.
The Jews had several Sabbaths; as their Seventh-day-sabbath, their Monthly Sabbaths, their Sabbath of Years, and their Jubile, (