A47576:108
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
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Second Proposition. But nevertheless after they had been better instructed into the truth of the Gospel, and the change or end of the Law, they were more plainly dealt with: I mean, he more fully and clearly informed them, and showed them the great danger if they observed those legal Rites, Days, and Ordinances, especially when he saw they laid such stress upon them, as to make them necessary to eternal Life as a Rule of Obedience.
Second Proposition. But nevertheless after they had been better instructed into the truth of the Gospel, and the change or end of the Law, they were more plainly dealt with: I mean, he more fully and clearly informed them, and shewed them the great danger if they observed those legal Rites, Days, and Ordinances, especially when he saw they laid such stress upon them, as to make them necessary to eternal Life as a Rule of Obedience.
Hence the Apostle says, I Paul testify unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing, Gal. 5. 1. And why if circumcised? because it was a shadow, and the keeping up the shadow was a virtual denying that the Substance was come; and besides, they were thereby bound to keep the whole Law. Such was the natural tendency of observing one Legal Rite, or Precept, as given by Moses, it being in that Ministration a Covenant of Works; and he that kept one was obliged to keep all, and he that broke one was guilty of all.
1. And if so, why might not Paul have told them the same thing and danger if they kept the legal Sabbath, which led them according to the ⟨p. 17⟩Tenor of it, and in the strictest observance to perfect Obedience; which is implied in those words, Thou shalt not think thy own thoughts, nor speak thy own words?