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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.
I do at this time but hint upon things, reserving a fuller Argument upon them for a time and place more fit; where, and when, I may perhaps also show, some other wild notions of those that so stiffly cleave to this.
I do at this time but hint upon things, reserving a fuller Argument upon them for a time and place more fit; where, and when, I may perhaps also shew, some other wild notions of those that so stifly cleave to this.
Mean time, I entreat those who are captivated with this opinion, not to take it ill at my hand that I thus freely speak my mind. I entreat them also to peruse my Book without prejudice to my person. The truth is, one thing that has moved me to this work, is the shame ⟨p. 143⟩that has covered the face of my Soul, when I have thought of the Fictions and Fancies that are growing among Professors: And while I see each Fiction turn it self to a Faction, to the loss of that good spirit of Love, and that oneness that formerly was with good men.
I doubt not but some unto whom this Book may come, have had seal from God, that the first day of the week is to be sanctified by the Church to Jesus Christ: Not only from his testimony, which is, and should be, the ground of our Practice; but also, for that the first conviction that the Holy Ghost made upon their Consciences, to make them know that they were sinners, began with them for breaking this Sabbath day; which day, by that same Spirit, was told them, was that now called the first day, and not the day before, (and the Holy Ghost doth not use to begin this work with a lye) which first conviction ⟨p. 144⟩the Spirit has followed so close, with other things tending to complete the same work, that the Soul from so good a beginning could not rest until it found rest in Christ. […] this then to such be a second token that the Lords day is by them to be kept in commemoration of their Lord and his Resurrection, and o what he did on this day for their Salvation.