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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.
Third, The great promise of the ⟨p. 139⟩New Testament, to wit, the pouring out of the Spirit, fixeth upon these days; and so he began in the most wonderful effusion of it upon Pentecost, which was the first day of the week, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, Acts 2. 16, 17, 18, 19.
Nor could these three Promises be fulfilled upon any other days, for that the Scripture had fixed them to the First day of the Week.
I am of opinion that these things, though but briefly touched upon, cannot be fairly objected against, however they may be disrelished by some.
Nor can I believe, that any part of our Religion, as we are Christians, stands in not kindling of fires, and not seething of Victuals, or in binding of men not to stir out of those places on the Seventh day, in which at the dawning thereof they were found: And yet these are Ordinances ⟨p. 140⟩