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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.
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, ⟨p. 127⟩Was to be done away; for that a better Ministration stripped it of its glory, is a high attempt indeed, 2 Cor. 3.
Nor will it out of my mind but that it is a very high piece of ingratitude, and of uncomly behaviour, to deny the Son of God his day, the Lords day, the day that he has made: And as we have shewed 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 plamly, ⟨p. 127⟩Was to be done away; for that a better Ministration stript it of its glory, is a high attempt indeed, 2 Cor. 3.
Yet again, the Apostle finites the teachers of the Law upon the mouth, saying, They understand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm, (1 Tim. 1. 7.)