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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.
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, (Levit. 25.) Now if he means their ordinary Sabbaths, or that called the Seventhday-sabbath, why doth he joyn the Winter thereto? for in that he joyneth 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 Jubile, which did better answer one to another than one day and a winter could.
And I say again, that Christ should suppose that their flight should, or might last some considerable part of a Winter, and yet that then they should have their rest on those Seventh-day-sabbaths, is a little besides my reason, if it be considered again, that the Gentiles before whom they were then to fly, were Enemies to their Sabbath, and consequently would take opportunity at their Sabbaths to afflict them so much the more. Wherefore, I would that they who plead for a continuation of the Seventh-day-sabbath from this Text, would both better consider LT, and the incoherence that seems to be betwixt such a Sabbath and a Winter.