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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.
Yea, what a diminution would this be to Gods Church that then was, for one to say, the Gentiles were to serve God with more liberty than the Jew! For the Law was a Yoke, and yet the Gentile is called the Dog, and said to be without God in the world, Deut. 7. 7. Psal. 147. 19, 20. Matth. 15. 26. Eph. 2. 11, 12.
Yea, what a diminution would this be to Gods Church that then was, for one to say, the Gentiles were to serve God with more liberty than the Jew! For the Law was a Yoak, and yet the Gentile is called the Dog, and said to be without God in the world, Deut. 7. 7. Psal. 147. 19, 20. Matth. 15. 26. Eph. 2. 11, 12.
Thirdly, When the Gentiles at the Jews return from Babylon, came and offered their Wares to sell to the Children of Israel at Jerusalem on this Sabbath; yea, and sold them to them too: yet not they, but the Jews, were rebuked as the only breakers of that Sabbath. Nay, there dwelt then at Jerusalem men of Tyre, that on this Sabbath sold ⟨p. 29⟩their Commodities to the Jews, and men of Judah: yet not they, but the men of Judah, were contended with, as the breakers of this Sabbath.
Thirdly, When the Gentiles at the Jews return from Babylon, came and offered their Wares to sell to the Children of Israel at Jerusalem on this Sabbath; yea, and sold them to them too: yet not they, but the Jews, were rebuked as the onely breakers of that Sabbath. Nay, there dwelt then at Jerusalem men of Tyre, that on this Sabbath sold