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The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts
The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts : first, proving the abrogation of the old seventh-day Sabbath : secondly, that the Lord's-Day is of divine appointment : containing several sermons newly preached upon a special occasion, wherein are many new arguments not found in former authors / by Benjamin Keach.The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts : first, proving the abrogation of the old seventh-day Sabbath : secondly, that the Lord's-Day is of divine appointment : containing several sermons newly preach'd upon a special occasion, wherein are many new arguments not found in former authors / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by John Marshall, 1700
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.
Object. But it is objected that it was an occasional and accidental meeting for common eating.
Answ. 1. It was a full Assembly, that is evident: for some were fain to get up into the Windows three stories high, as Eutychus, ver. 8. the lower Room would not hold them; therefore it was no small meeting.
2. 'Tis said, they came together to break Bread. What, is Paul so thoughtful of eating and drinking, to refresh his Body with them, as to stay seven days for that? No, no, it was a better Feast he hungered after,1 to break Bread, saith the Text; to receive the Eucharist, says the Syriac Translation, that is, to receive the Lord's-Supper upon the Lord's-day.
2. 'Tis said, they came together to break Bread. What, is Paul so thoughtful of eating and drinking, to refresh his Body with them, as to stay seven days for that? No, no, it was a better Feast he hunger'd after,1 to break Bread, saith the Text; to receive the Eucharist, says the Syriac Translation, that is, to receive the Lord's-Supper upon the Lord's-day.
- 1See Mr. Warren, p. 201.