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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.
3. This day of the week! They that make but observation of what the Lord did of old, to a many sinners, & with his Churches on this day, must needs conclude, that in this day the Treasures of Heaven were broken up, and the richest things therein communicated to his Church. Shall the children of this world be, as to this also, wiser in their generations than the children of Light, and former Saints, upon whose shoulders we pretend to stand, go beyond us here also.
3. This day of the week! They that make but observation of what the Lord did of old, to a many siuners, & with his Churches on this day, must needs conclude, that in this day the Treasures of Heaven were broken up, and the richest things therein communicated to his Church. Shall the children of this world be, as to this also, wiser in their generations than the children of Light, and former Saints, upon whose shoulders we pretend to stand, go beyond us here also.
Jacob could by observation gather that the place where he lay down to sleep was no other but the House of God, and the very Gate of Heaven, (Gen. 28. 17.)
Laban could gather by observation, that the Lord blessed him for Jacob's sake, (Gen. 30. 27.)