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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
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.
Fifthly, I doubt the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, and so not moral; because though we read that the Law of Nature, and that before Moses, was charged upon the world, yet I fi•d not till then, that the profanation of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon the world: and indeed to me this very thing makes a great scruple in the case.
Fifthly, I doubt the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, and so not moral; because though we read that the Law of Nature, and that before Moses, was charged upon the world, yet I fi•d not till then, that the prophanation of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon the world: and indeed to me this very thing makes a great scruple in the case.
A Law, as I said, we read of, and that from Adam to Moses (Rom. 5. 13, 14.) The transgressions also of that Law we read of them, and that particularly, as in Gen. 4. 8. ch. 6. 5. ⟨p. 7⟩ch. 9. 21, 22. ch. 12. 13. ch. 13. 13. ch. 18. 12, 13, 14, 15. ch. 19. 5. (Ezek. 49. 50.) ch. 31. 30. ch. 35. 2. ch. 40. 15. ch. 44. 8, 9, 10. Deut. 8. 19, 28. ch. 12. 2. Psal. 106. 35, 36, 37. and Romans the first and second Chapters.
But in all the Scriptures we do not read, that the breach of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon men as men all that time. Whence I gather, that either a Seventh-day-Sabbath was not discerned by the Light of Nature, and so not by that Law imposed; or else, that men by the help and assistance of that (for we speak of men as men) in old time kept it better, than in after Ages did the Church of God with better assistance by far: For they are there yet found fault with as breakers of that Sabbath (Ezekiel 20. 13.)