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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.
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, Exod. 16. 26.
Alass! 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, Exod. 16. 26.
Any day of the week Manna could be found, but on that day it was not to be found upon the face of the ground. But now our first day is the Manna-day; the only day that the Churches of the New Testament, even of old, did gather Manna in. But more of this anon.
Any day of the week Manna could be found, but on that day it was not to be found upon the face of the ground. But now our first day is the Manna-day; the onely day that the Churches of the New Testament, even of old, did gather Manna in. But more of this anon.
Nor will it out of my mind but that it is a very high piece of ingratitude, and of uncomely behaviour, to deny the Son of God his day, the Lords day, the day that he has made: And as we have showed already, this first day of the week is it; yea, and a great piece of unmannerliness is it too, for any, notwithstanding the old Seventh day is so degraded as it is, to attempt to impose it on the Son of God. To impose a day upon him which yet Paul denies to be a branch of the Ministration of the Spirit, and of righteousness. Yea, to impose a part of that Ministration which HE says plainly,