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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.
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.)
The Seventh-day-sabbath was indeed Gods Rest from the works of Creation; but yet the Rest that he found in what the first day of the week did produce▪ for Christ was born from the dead in it, more pleased him than did all the Seventh days that ever the world brought forth; wherefore, as I said before, it cannot be but that the well-bred Christian must set apart this day for solemn Worship to God, and to sanctify his name therein.
The Seventh-day-sabbath was indeed Gods Rest from the works of Creation; but yet the Rest that he found in what the first day of the week did produce▪ for Christ was born from the dead in it, more pleased him than did all the Seventh days that ever the world brought forth; wherefore, as I said before, it cannot be but that the well-bred Christian must set apart this day for solemn Worship to God, and to sanctifie his name therein.
Must the Church of old be bound to remember that might in which they did come out of Egypt! must Jeptha's daughter have four days ⟨p. 128⟩for the Virgins of Israel yearly to lament her hard case in! Yea, must two days be kept by the Church of old, yearly, for their being delivered from Hamon's fury! And must not one to the worlds end be kept by the Saints for the Son of God their Redeemer, for all he has delivered them from a worse than Pharaoh or Haman, even from the Devil, and Death, and Sin, and Hell! oh stupidity!