A47576:1083
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.
'Tis manifest therefore that the Lord's-day, [Greek or Hebrew], Dominica, or Dies Dominicus, was the known name of a Day so called when John wrote his Revelation; that it was a day of Religious Worship, contradistinguished to that of the Jewish Sabbath, and so observed, and so called by Ignatius within eight or ten ⟨p. 246⟩years at most after John's writing that Book; which he would not have done if he had not thought it to be so meant by his Master St. John.
'Tis manifest therefore that the Lord's-day, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Dominica, or Dies Dominicus, was the known name of a Day so called when John wrote his Revelation; that it was a day of Religious Worship, contradistinguished to that of the Jewish Sabbath, and so observed, and so called by Ignatius within eight or ten ⟨p. 246⟩years at most after John's writing that Book; which he would not have done if he had not thought it to be so meant by his Master St. John.
And in what manner it was observed in their solemn Religious Assemblies, Justin Martyr tells us, He also adds Clemens, Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, &c.
To which I might add Pliny that lived under Trajan, who, tho a Heathen, could observe how these morning Stars used to meet early on this day,1 and sing Hymns to Christ; and not only sing his Praises, but celebrate his holy Supper on the Lord's-day.