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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.
Thirdly, This yet seems to me more scrupulous, because that the punishment due to the breach of the Seventh-day-Sabbath was hid from men to the time of Moses; as is clear; for that 'tis said of the breaker of the Sabbath, They put him in ward, because it was not as yet declared what should be done unto him, Numb. 15. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
But methinks, had this Seventh-day-Sabbath been imposed upon men from the beginning, the penalty or punishment due to the breach thereof had certainly been known before now.
But methinks, had this Seventhday-Sabbath been imposed upon men from the beginning, the penalty or punishment due to the breach thereof had certainly been known before now.
When Adam was forbidden to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, the Penalty was then, if he disobeyed, annexed to the Prohibition. So also it was as to Circumcision, the Passover, and other Ordinances for Worship. How then can it be thought, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath ⟨p. 17⟩should be imposed upon men from the beginning; and that the Punishment for the breach thereof, should be hid with God for the space of Two thousand years! Gen. 2. 16, 17. ch. 17. 13, 14. Exod. 12. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. and the same Chapter, vers. 19.