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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.
Thus then the Old Testament-signs and shadows went off the stage in the Church of Christ among the Jews. They lost their virtue and signification when Christ nailed them to his Cross, Coloss. 2. But as to their Name, and the Grandeur that attended that, it continued with many that were weak, and vanished not, but when the abomination that made them desolate came.
Thus then the Old Testament-signs and shadows went off the stage in the Church of Christ among the Jews. They lost their vertue and signification when Christ nailed them to his Cross, Coloss. 2. But as to their Name, and the Grandeur that attended that, it continued with many that were weak, and vanished not, but when the abomination that made them desolate came.
The sum then and conclusion of the matter is this; the Seventh-day-sabbath lost its glory when that Ministration in which it was, lost its: But yet the name thereof might abide a long time with the Jewish legal Christians, and so might become obligatory still, though not by the Law, to their Conscience, even as Circumcision and other Ceremonies did: and to them it would be as grievous to fly on that day, as if by Law it was still in force.
The sum then and conclusion of the matter is this; the Seventh-day-sabbath lost its glory when that Ministration in which it was, lost its: But yet the name thereof might abide a long time with the Jowish legal Christians, and so might become obligatory still, though not by the Law, to their Conscience, even as Circumcision and other Ceremonies did: and to them it would be as grievous to fly on that day, as if by Law it was still in force.