A47576:1125
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.
And if this day had not been more holy, or more fit for this Work of Love than any other, 1Paul durst not have limited them to this Day, nor have honoured this Day above any other, yea above the Jewish Seventh-day. Moreover, saith Mr. Shepherd, the Apostle doth not in this place immediately appoint and institute the Sabbath, but supposeth it to be so already (as Mr. Primrose is forced to acknowledge) and we know Duties of Mercy and Charity, as well as of necessary Piety, are ⟨p. 256⟩Sabbath-duties: for which end this Day was more fit for those Collections than any other day, being then generally together, and their Hearts warmed under the Word, &c.
And if this day had not been more holy, or more fit for this Work of Love than any other, 1Paul durst not have limited them to this Day, nor have honoured this Day above any other, yea above the Jewish Seventh-day. Moreover, saith Mr. Shepherd, the Apostle doth not in this place immediately appoint and institute the Sabbath, but supposeth it to be so already (as Mr. Primrose is forced to acknowledg) and we know Dutys of Mercy and Charity, as well as of necessary Piety, are ⟨p. 256⟩Sabbath-dutys: for which end this Day was more fit for those Collections than any other day, being then generally together, and their Hearts warmed under the Word, &c.
- 1Shepherd on the Sab. p. 219.
There must, saith another*, be some peculiar thing in this Day, making it fit, yea more fit for such a purpose as doing Works of Charity on it, rather than on any other: And the Apostle commanding this in all the Churches, doth necessarily presuppose a Reason why he doth it, as drawn from some fitness of this Day above another.