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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.
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.
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 observ'd in his solemn Worship under the Gospel. But this was the prime and chief time for solemn Worship in season, &c. Ergo.
2. And if those meetings on the first day were not such as used to be formerly on the seventh day, I desire to know a reason, 1. Why their Meetings on the first day should be particularly recorded, rather than their Meetings on the seventh. 2. And why also the one is so oft mentioned, i. e. their Meetings on the first day, and no mention at all that they met on the seventh day in the New Testament, from the Resurrection of Christ, as a Church-assembly to worship God, or discharge any part of Religious Duties; nor of their meeting on the second, third, fourth, &c.