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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 day on which Christ was born of a Virgin; the day of his Circumcision, the day of his Baptism, and Transfiguration, are not by their names committed by the Holy Ghost to holy Writ to be kept alive in the world▪ nor yet such days in which he did many great and wonderful thing: But THIS day▪ this day is still nominated, the first day of the week is the day. I say, why are things thus left with us? but because we, as Saints of old, should gather, and separate, what is of divine Authority from the rest. For in that this day is so often nominated while all other days lie dead ⟨p. 124⟩in their Graves, 'tis as much as if God should say, Remember the First day of the week to keep it holy to the Lord your God.
And set this aside, and I know not what reason can be rendered, or what Prophecy should be fulfilled by the bare naming of the day.
And set this aside, and I know not what reason can be rendred, or what Prophecy should be fulfilled by the bare naming of the day.
When God, of old, did sanctify for the use of his Church a day, as he did many, he always called them either by the name of the day of the Month, or of the Week, or by some other signal by which they might be certainly known. Why should it not then be concluded, that for this very reason the first day of the week is thus often nominated by the Holy Ghost in the Testament of Christ?
When God, of old, did sanctifie for the use of his Church a day, as he did many, he always called them either by the name of the day of the Month, or of the Week, or by some other signal by which they might be certainly known. Why should it not then be concluded, that for this very reason the first day of the week is thus often nominated by the Holy Ghost in the Testament of Christ?