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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.
But, I say, to an untainted and well-bred Christian, we have good measure, shaken together, and running over, for our Christian Lords day. And I say again, that the first day of the week, and the spirit of such a Christian, suit one another, as nature suits nature; for there is as it were a natural instinct in Christians, as such, when they understand what in a first day was brought forth, to fall in therewith to keep it holy to their Lord.
But, I say, to an untainted and well-bred Christian, we have good measure, shaken together, and running over, for our Christian Lords day. And I say again, that the first day of the week, and the spirit of such a Christian, sute one another, as nature suteth nature; for there is as it were a natural instinct in Christians, as such, when they understand what in a first day was brought forth, to fall in therewith to keep it holy to their Lord.
1. The first day of the week why it was the day of our life. After ⟨p. 119⟩two days he will revive us, and in the third day we shall live in his sight. After two days, there is the Jews preparation, and Seventh-day-sabbath, quite passed over; and in the third day, that's the first day of the week, which is the day our Lord did rise from the dead, we began to live by him in the sight of God, Hos. 6. 2. Joh. 20. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 4.
2. The first day of the week! That's the day in which, as I hinted before, our Lord was wont to preach to his Disciples after he rose from the dead; in which also he did use to show them his Hands and his Feet, (