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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.
But why must he be imposed upon? has he chosen that day? did he finish HIS work thereon? Is there in all the New Testament of our Lord, from the day he rose from the dead, to the end of his holy Book, one syllable that signifies in the least the tenth part of such a thing? Where is the Scripture that saith that this Lord of the Sabbath commanded his Church, from that time, to do any part of Church-service thereon? Where do we find the Churches to gather together thereon?
But why must he be imposed upon? has he chosen that day? did he finish HIS work thereon? Is there in all the New Testament of our Lord, from the day he rose from the dead, to the end of his holy Book, one syllable that signifies in the least the tenth part of such a thing? Where is the Scripture that saith that this Lord of the Sabbath commanded his Church, from that time, to do any part of Churchservice thereon? Where do we find the Churches to gather together thereon?
But why the Seventh day? What is it? Take but the shadow thereof away: Or what shadow now is left in it since its institution as to Divine Service is taken long since from it?
Is there any thing in the works that was done in that day, more than shadow, or that in the least tends otherwise to put us in mind of Christ; and he being come, what ⟨p. 130⟩need have we of that shadow? And I say again, since that day was to be observed by a ceremonial method, and no way else, as we find; and since Ceremonies are ceased, what way by divine appointment is there left to keep that old Sabbath by Christians in?