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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.
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.
(2.) There is a great difference between these two Phrases, the Lord's Day, and the Day of the Lord: for such an Interpretation of the Lord's Day would render it an uncertain time, and so directly cross the scope of John in setting down,1 (1.) The Place where. (2.) The Day when. (3.) The Vision it self. And, as one observes, it is void of all judgment to take it for the Day of Judgment: for in the readiest construction of the words, St. John spoke of a Day that was in being before he had the Vision, and a Day well-known to the Churches at that time. But was the Day of Judgment then come, or hath it yet been? There are more than a thousand years since John was on that Day in the Spirit, &c. This is an idle dream:2 for of that day and hour knoweth no Man.
- 1Mr. Ley Sund. Sab.
- 2Mat. 24. 36.
A Learned Writer answers four Questions on this Text,1