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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.
Fourthly, Gods giving of the Seventh-day-Sabbath was with respect to stated and stinted Worship in his Church; the which, until the time of Moses, was not set up among his people. Things till then were adding or growing: Now a Sacrifice, then Circumcision, then again long after that the Passover, &c. But when Israel was come into the Wilderness, there to receive as Gods Congregation, a stated, stinted, limited way of Worship, then he appoints them a time, and times, to perform this Worship in; but as I said afore, before that it was not so, as the whole five Books of Moses plainly show: wherefore the Seventh-day-Sabbath, ⟨p. 18⟩as such a limited day, cannot be Moral, or of the Law of Nature, nor imposed till then.
Fourthly, Gods giving of the Seventh-day-Sabbath was with respect to stated and stinted Worship in his Church; the which, until the time of Moses, was not set up among his people. Things till then were adding or growing: Now a Sacrifice, then Circumcision, then again long after that the Passover, &c. But when Israel was come into the Wilderness, there to receive as Gods Congregation, a stated, stinted, limited way of Worship, then he appoints them a time, and times, to perform this Worship in; but as I said afore, before that it was not so, as the whole five Books of Moses plainly shew: wherefore the Seventhday-Sabbath, ⟨p. 18⟩as such a limited day, cannot be Moral, or of the Law of Nature, nor imposed till then.
And methinks Christ Jesus and his Apostles do plainly enough declare this very thing: For that when they repeat unto the people, or expound before them the Moral Law, they quite exclude the Seventh-day-Sabbath: Yea, Paul makes that Law to us complete without it.
And methinks Christ Jesus and his Apostles do plainly enough declare this very thing: For that when they repeat unto the people, or expound before them the Moral Law, they quite exclude the Seventhday-Sabbath: Yea, Paul makes that Law to us compleat without it.