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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 therefore take little notice of what a man saith, though he flourisheth his matter with many brave words, if he bring not with him, Thus saith the Lord. For that, and that only, ought to be my ground of Faith as to how my God would be worshipped by me. For in the matters material to the Worship of God, 'tis safest that thus I be guided in my Judgement: for here only I perceive the footsteps of the Flock (Ezek. 3. 11. Song 1. 8.) They say further, that for God to sanctify a thing, is to set it apart. This being true; then it follows, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was sanctified, that is, set apart for Adam in Paradise; and so, that it was ordained a Sabbath of rest to the Saints from the beginning.
I therefore take little notice of what a man saith, though he flourisheth his matter with many brave words, if he bring not with him, Thus saith the Lord. For that, and that onely, ought to be my ground of Faith as to how my God would be worshipped by me. For in the matters material to the Worship of God, 'tis safest that thus I be guided in my Judgement: for here onely I perceive the footsteps of the Flock (Ezek. 3. 11. Song 1. 8.) They say further, that for God to sanctifie a thing, is to set it apart. This being true; then it follows, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was sanctified, that is, set apart for Adam in Paradise; and so, that it was ordained a Sabbath of rest to the Saints from the beginning.
But I answer, as I hinted before, that God did sanctify it to his own ⟨p. 14⟩rest. The Lord also hath set apart him that is godly for himself. But again, 'tis one thing for God to sanctify this or that thing to an use, and another thing to command that that thing be forthwith in being to us. As for instance: the Land of Canaan was set apart many years for the Children of Israel before they possessed that Land. Christ Jesus was long sanctified; that is, set apart to be our Redeemer before he sent him into the world (