A47576:1020
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.
(4.) It is clear, that by a special applying of these Exercises to that Day, and by mentioning that Day to this end, it was their most solemn Day in season to meet upon, and that the old Sabbath was not, but was abolished with the Covenant of Works.
(5.) Nor is it likely that Paul would have stayed there, who was ready to depart, had not that day been the day of solemn Worship, when perhaps many in the adjacent places came ⟨p. 232⟩together. Nor would they have slipped over the seventh Day, without any notice taken of that; for it necessarily shows they had no regard to the old Sabbath: which the Disciples would be sure never have done, if there had been so great a Sanction for that day as for the first day of the week.
(5.) Nor is it likely that Paul would have stay'd there, who was ready to depart, had not that day been the day of solemn Worship, when perhaps many in the adjacent places came ⟨p. 232⟩together. Nor would they have slipt over the seventh Day, without any notice taken of that; for it necessarily shews they had no regard to the old Sabbath: which the Disciples would besure never have done, if there had been so great a Sanction for that day as for the first day of the week.
(6.) As Dr. Owen notes,1 the Disciples came together without an extraordinary warning, or being sent to, or called together in answer to their Duty; which they were accustomed so to do. Such, saith he, is the account that Justin Martyr gives of the Practice of all Churches in the next Age, i. e. on the day called Sunday there is an Assembly of all Christians, whether living in the City or Country; and because of their constant breaking of Bread on that day, it was called Dies Panis. August. Epist. 118. And Athanasius proved that he brake not a Chalice at such a time,