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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.
If they say, Ceremonies are ceased. By the same Argument, so is the sanction of the day in which they were to be performed. I would gladly see the place, if it is to be found, where 'tis said, That day retains its sanction, which yet has lost that method of service which was of God appointed for the performance of worship to him thereon.
If they say, Ceremonies are ceased. By the same Argument, so is the sanction of the day in which they were to be performed. I would gradly see the place, if it is to be found, where 'tis said, That day retains its sanction, which yet has lost that method of service which was of God appointed for the performance of worship to him thereon.
When Canaan-worship fell, the Sanction of Canaan fell. When Temple-worship, and Altar-worship, and the Sacrifices of the Levitical Priesthood fell, down also came the things themselves! Likewise so, when the service or shadow and ceremonies of the Seventh-day-sabbath fell, the ⟨p. 131⟩Seventh-day-Sabbath fell likewise.
On the Seventh-day-sabbath, as I told you, Manna was not to be found. But why for that that day was of Moses and of the Ministration of death. But Manna was was not of him: Moses, saith Christ, gave you not that bread from Heaven, Joh. 6. 31, 32. Moses, as was said, ▪gave that Sabbath in Tables of stone, and God gave that Manna from Heaven. Christ, nor his Father, gives grace by the Law, no not by that Law in which is contained the old Seventh-day-sabbath it self.
On the Seventh-day-sabbath, as I told you, Manna was not to be found. But why for that that day was of Moses and of the Ministration of death. But Manna was was not of him: Moses, saith Christ, gave you not that bread from Heaven,