A47576:1055
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.
Answ. The Rest spoken of here may be meant of that; and from thence we have also a day of Rest allowed us: And by comparing this with Heb. 4. I can't see but it clearly has respect to this Day of Rest, the Lord's Day, because the Seventh-day is called the Father's Day of Rest; and the day of Christ's Resurrection is also Christ's Day of Rest, as we have proved.
Object. It may refer to the Great Lord's Day,1 the Day of the last Judgment: I saw the dead, &c. for a thousand years with the Lord is as one day. Thus the Sabbatarians.
Answ. (1.) These men would have it to be any day, rather than the very day the Holy Apostle means, i. e. the First-day; one while 'tis the day of Christ's Birth, or the day of his Death, or some Feast-day, or else the day of Judgment: whereas we find the Gospel-Church observed no day but the First-day of the Week, the day of our Lord's Resurrection.