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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
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Now he calls to their mind some of the eminent passages of his life, and eats and drinks in their presence, and opens the Scriptures to them: Yea, and opens their Understanding too, that their hearing might not be unprofitable to them; all which continued from early in the morning till late at night: Oh! what a Manna-day was this to the Church. And more than all this you will find, if you read but the four Evangelists upon this Subject.
Thus began the day after the Sabbath, and thus it has continued ⟨p. 135⟩thorough all Ages to this very day. Never did the Seventh-day-sabbath yield Manna to Christians. A new world was now begun with the poor Church of God; for so said the Lord of the Sabbath, Behold, I make all things new. A new Covenant, and why not then a new resting-day to the Church? or why must the old Sabbath be joined to this new Ministration? let him that can show a reason for it.
Thus began the day after the Sabbath, and thus it has continued ⟨p. 135⟩thorough all Ages to this very day. Never did the Seventh-day-sabbath yield Manna to Christians. A new world was now begun with the poor Church of God; for so said the Lord of the Sabbath, Behold, I make all things new. A new Covenant, and why not then a new resting-day to the Church? or why must the old Sabbath be joyned to this new Ministration? let him that can shew a reason for it.
Christians, if I have not been so large upon things as some might expect; know, that my brevity on this Subject is, from consideration that much needs not be spoken thereto, and because I may have occasion to write a second Part.