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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.
The Law is not of Faith, why then should Grace be by Christians expected by observation of the Law? The Law, even the Law written and engraven in stones enjoins perfect obedience thereto on pain of the curse of God. Nor can that part of it now under consideration, according as is required, be fulfilled by any man, was the Ceremony thereto belonging, allowed to ⟨p. 132⟩be laid aside, Isai. 58. 13. Never man yet did keep it perfectly, except he whose name is Jesus Christ: in him therefore we have kept it, and by him are set free from that Law, and brought under the ministration of the Spirit.
The Law is not of Faith, why then should Grace be by Christians expected by observation of the Law? The Law, even the Law written and engraven in stones enjoyns perfect obedience thereto on pain of the curse of God. Nor can that part of it now under consideration, according as is required, be fulfilled by any man, was the Ceremony thereto belonging, allowed to ⟨p. 132⟩be laid aside, Isai. 58. 13. Never man yet did keep it perfectly, except he whose name is Jesus Christ: in him therefore we have kept it, and by him are set free from that Law, and brought under the ministration of the Spirit.
But why should we be bound to seek Manna on that day, on which God says, None shall be found.
But why should we be bound to seek Manna on that day, on which God saies, None shall be found.