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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.
I have observed, that though the Jewish Rites have lost their Sanction, ⟨p. 136⟩yet some that are weak in Judgement, do bring themselves into bondage by them. Yea, so high have some been carried as to a pretended Conscience to these, that they have at last proceeded to Circumcision, to many Wives; and the observation of many bad things besides.
Yea, I have talked with some pretending to Christianity, who have said, and affirmed, as well as they could, that the Jewish Sacrifices must up again.
But do you give no heed to these Jewish Fables That turn from the truth (Tit. 1. 14.) Do you, I say, that love the Lord Jesus, keep close to his Testament, his Word, his Gospel, and observe HIS Holy-day.
And this Caution in conclusion I would give, to put stop to this Jewish Ceremony, to wit, That a Seventh-day-Sabbath pursued according to its imposition by Law, ⟨p. 137⟩