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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…

Name: Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…
Author: John Bunyan

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.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for Nath. Ponder, 1685

[12], 144 p. · 23k words · Wing B5587 · ESTC R17508

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QUESTIONS About the NATURE and PERPE TUITY Of the Seventh-day-Sabbath. › Question 3: QUEST. III. Whether when the Seventh-day-Sabbath was given to Israel in the Wilderness,…

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:94p. 29–30

Fourthly, Wherefore he saith to Israel again, Verily my Sabbaths [ye] ⟨p. 30⟩shall keep. And again, [ye] shall keep my Sabbaths. And again, The children of Israel shall keep my Sabbaths to observe my Sabbaths throughout [their] generations, Exod. 16. 29. ch. 31. 14, 15, 16.

Fourthly, Wherefore he saith to Israel again, Verily my Sabbaths [ye] ⟨p. 30⟩shall keep. And again, [ye] shall keep my Sabbaths. And again, The children of Israel shall keep my Sabbaths to observe my Sabbaths thoroughout [their] generations, Exod. 16. 29. ch. 31. 14, 15, 16.

:95p. 30

What can be more plain, these things thus standing in the Testament of God, than that the Seventh-day-sabbath as such, was given to Israel, to Israel only; and that the Gentiles, as such, were not concerned therein!

What can be more plain, these things thus standing in the Testament of God, than that the Seventh-day-sabbath as such, was given to Israel, to Israel onely; and that the Gentiles, as such, were not concerned therein!

:96p. 30–31

Fifthly, The very reason also of Gods giving of the Seventh-day-sabbath to the Jews, doth exclude the Gentiles, as such, from having any concern therein. For it was given to the Jews, as was said before, as they were considered Gods Church, and for a sign and token by which they should know that he had chosen and sanctified them to himself for a peculiar people,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Bunyan 1628–1688

Place

London

Bookseller

Nath. Ponder

Year

1685

Size

[12], 144 p.

Words

23,437

Catalogue

Wing B5587 · ESTC R17508

Text

EEBO-TCP A30197

Passages

364

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

QUEST. IV. Whether the Seventh day-Sabbath did not fall, as such, with the rest of the Jewish Rites and Ceremonies? Or whether that day, as a Sabbath, was afterwards by the Apostles imposed upon the Churches of the Gentiles?