A47576:1023
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.
And whosoever reads this Passage without prejudice, will grant, that it is a marvellous, abrupt and uncouth Expression, if it do not signify that it was the common observance among all the Disciples of Christ, which could have no other Foundation, but that only laid down before, of the Authority of the Lord Christ requiring it of them.
And whosoever reads this Passage without prejudice, will grant, that it is a marvellous, adrupt and uncouth Expression, if it do not signify that it was the common observance among all the Disciples of Christ, which could have no other Foundation, but that only laid down before, of the Authority of the Lord Christ requiring it of them.
And, saith he, I doubt not but Paul preached his farewell Sermon (after all the ordinary Service of the Church was performed) which continued till midnight. And all the Objections I have met with against this Instance, amounts to no more than this, i. e. that the Scripture says that the Disciples met together to break Bread, yet indeed they did not so. And this, by what the Doctor says, vanishes into Smoke.
And, saith he, I doubt not but Paul preach'd his farewel Sermon (after all the ordinary Service of the Church was perform'd) which continued till midnight. And all the Objections I have met with against this Instance, amounts to no more than this, i. e. that the Scripture says that the Disciples met together to break Bread, yet indeed they did not so. And this, by what the Doctor says, vanishes into Smoak.
1. From the whole I may argue: If the Apostles and Primitive Christians did observe the first day of the week as their prime and chief time for solemn Worship in season, and passed over the old seventh Day; then is the first day of the week, and not the seventh, that precise Day Christ has appointed to be observed in his solemn Worship under the Gospel. But this was the prime and chief time for solemn Worship in season, &c. Ergo.