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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.
2. Or provided they made it necessary in order to a holy Life in point of Obedience, as a pure moral Precept, even of the same nature with the first Commandment, viz. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me; or the second, Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, &c. or the third, or fifth, or any of the rest; I speak not of what is simply moral in the fourth Commandment, but of that precise seventh day: I say, may not their danger be as great, if thus they looked upon those Jewish Sabbaths, as if circumcised, because then if they kept them not, it necessarily must follow, it would exclude them the Kingdom of Heaven, as all other immoral Acts, or actual breach of pure moral Precepts would do?
2. Or provided they made it necessary in order to a holy Life in point of Obedience, as a pure moral Precept, even of the same nature with the first Commandment, viz. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me; or the second, Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, &c. or the third, or fifth, or any of the rest; I speak not of what is simply moral in the fourth Commandment, but of that precise seventh day: I say, may not their danger be as great, if thus they look'd upon those Jewish Sabbaths, as if circumcised, because then if they kept them not, it necessarily must follow, it would exclude them the Kingdom of Heaven, as all other immoral Acts, or actual breach of pure moral Precepts would do?
3. Because Paul tells them that those Sabbaths were a Shadow or Sign, so far as Circumcision was, as I have and shall further make appear; and so hereby unwarily they would deny that Christ was come to give us Rest, and we do not yet cease working for Life in order to enter into Rest, which was held forth as the Tenor of that Ministration of the Moral Law by Moses, and particularly in their Sabbath.
Third Proposit. Let it be considered that the substance of the whole Moral Law, or ten Commandments (I mean materially, not formally) was written in the Heart of Adam in Innocency; and as written there, it contained the Covenant of Works. And so long as he kept that Law perfectly, he stood justified, and all Mankind in him: and also that he had but one positive Precept given him to try his Obedience