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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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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⟩(and I know not that it is imposed by the Apostles.) leads to blood and stoning to death those that do but gather Sticks thereon (Numb. 15. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.) A thing which no way becomes the Gospel, that Ministration of the Spirit and of Righteousness (2 Cor. 3.) nor yet the professors thereof (Luke 9. 54, 55, 56.)
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⟩(and I know not that it is imposed by the Apostles.) leads to bloud and stoning to death those that do but gather Sticks thereon (Numb. 15. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.) A thing which no way becomes the Gospel, that Ministration of the Spirit and of Righteousness (2 Cor. 3.) nor yet the professors thereof (Luke 9. 54, 55, 56.)
Nor can it with fairness be said, that that Sabbath day remains, though the Law thereof is repealed. For confident I am, that there is no more ground to make such a conclusion, than there is to say, that Circumcision is still of force, though the Law for cutting of the uncircumcised is by the Gospel made null and void.