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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.
If then, by Gods sanctifying of the Seventh day for a Sabbath, you understand it for a Sabbath for man, (but the Text saith not so) yet it might be so set apart for man, long before it should be, as such, made known unto him. And that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was not as yet made known to men, consider
Secondly, Moses himself seems to have the knowledge of it at first, not by Tradition, but by Revelation; ⟨p. 15⟩as it is (Exod. 16. 23.) This is that, saith he, that the Lord hath said, (namely to me; for we read not, as yet, that he said it to any body else) To morrow is the Sabbath of the holy rest unto the Lord.
Also holy Nehemiah suggesteth this, when he saith of Israel to God, Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths (Neh. 9. 14.) The first of these Texts show us, that tidings of a Seventh-day-Sabbath for men, came first to Moses from Heaven: and the second, that it was to Israel before unknown.
Also holy Nehemiah suggesteth this, when he saith of Israel to God, Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths (Neh. 9. 14.) The first of these Texts shew us, that tidings of a Seventh-day-Sabbath for men, came first to Moses from Heaven: and the second, that it was to Israel before unknown.