A47576:1066
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.
(2.) Neither can it refer to the Seventh-day: 'tis as irrational to say this Lord's Day is the old Sabbath, as to affirm the Lord's Supper means the Passover.—This Lord's Day was revealed after his coming in the Flesh, but the Seventh-day long before. As he was revealed newly in the Gospel, to be the one Lord Jesus Christ, our Mediator; so a new day of his was revealed also, which the Church never knew before, viz. his Resurrection, which was notoriously known to be the Lord's Day.
(3.) He proves it can't be attributed to the day of his Nativity.
(4.) That this Title, the Lord's Day, was not imposed upon any extraordinary time, by reason of the great Revelation given out to John therein.
(1.) He was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, before he received those Revelations, therefore they could not be the ground of this Appellation—To pretend to Prolepsis here, is a miserable shift.