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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.
Moreover, he that takes away the first day, as to this Service, leaves us now NO day, as sanctified of God, for his solemn Worship to be by his Churches performed in. As for ⟨p. 125⟩the Seventh-day-sabbath, that as we see, is gone to its grave with the Signs and Shadows of the Old Testament.
Yea, and has such a dash left upon it by Apostolical Authority, that 'tis enough to make a Christian fly from it for ever, (2 Cor. 3.)▪
Now, I say; since that is removed by God: If we should suffer the first day also to be taken away by man, What day that has a divine stamp upon it, would be left for us to worship God in?
Alas! the first day of the week is the Christians Market-day, that which they so solemnly trade in for sole provision for all the week following. This is the day that they gather Manna in. To be sure the Seventh-day-sabbath is not that: For of old the people of God could never find Manna on that day. On the seventh day, said Moses, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none,