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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.
Secondly, The Gentiles could not be concerned, as such, with Gods giving of a Seventh-day-sabbath to Israel, because, as I have showed before, it was given to Israel considered as a Church of God, (Acts 7. 31.)
Secondly, The Gentiles could not be concerned, as such, with Gods giving of a Seventh-day-sabbath to Israel, because, as I have shewed before, it was given to Israel considered as a Church of God, (Acts 7. 31.)
Nor was it given to them, as such, but with Rites and Ceremonies thereto belonging, so Levit. 24. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Numb. 28. 9, 10. Neh. 13. 22. Ezek. 46. 4.
Now, I say, if this Sabbath hath Ceremonies thereto belonging, and if these Ceremonies were essential to the right keeping of the Sabbath: And again, if these Ceremonies were given to Israel only, excluding all but such as were their Proselytes, then this Sabbath was given to them as excluding the Gentiles as such. But if it had been Moral, the Gentiles could as soon have been deprived of their Nature as of a Seventh-day-sabbath, though the Jews should have appropriated it unto themselves only.
Now, I say, if this Sabbath hath Ceremonies thereto belonging, and if these Ceremonies were essential to the right keeping of the Sabbath: And again, if these Ceremonies were given to Israel onely, excluding all but such as were their Proselytes, then this Sabbath was given to them as excluding the Gentiles as such. But if it had been Moral, the Gentiles could assoon have been deprived of their Nature as of a Seventh-day-sabbath, though the Jews should have appropriated it unto themselves onely.