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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.
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.
For, I say, to a weak Conscience, that Law which has lost its life, may ⟨p. 115⟩yet thorough their ignorance, be as binding as if it stood still upon the authority of God.
Things then become obligatory these two ways.