A47576:1126
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.
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.
- *Mr. Durham.
Now if we will, saith he, enquire, no reason can be given but that the Seventh-day Sabbath was expired, and the First-day instituted in its place, for otherwise any day was alike; yea, the 7th day being the last of the Week, and whereon men usually reckon their week's success, it would seem more reasonable that at the close of the Week they should lay up by them as God had blessed them, than reserve it to the beginning of another Week. The fitness then flows from this, that the First-day being the day of their solemn communion with God and one another, and of their partaking most liberally of Spiritual Blessings from him, therefore they should be most warmed in their Affections, and most liberal in their Communications to such as wanted, especially considering the Jews were to partake of this their Charity, whose Debtors the Gentiles were, according to that in Rom. 15. 26, 27.
Now if we will, saith he, enquire, no reason can be given but that the Seventh-day Sabbath was expired, and the First-day instituted in its place, for otherwise any day was alike; yea, the 7th day being the last of the Week, and whereon men usually reckon their week's success, it would seem more reasonable that at the close of the Week they should lay up by them as God had blessed them, than reserve it to the beginning of another Week. The fitness then flows from this, that the First-day being the day of their solemn communion with God and one another, and of their partaking most liberally of Spiritual Blessings from him, therefore they should be most warm'd in their Affections, and most liberal in their Communications to such as wanted, especially considering the Jews were to partake of this their Charity, whose Debtors the Gentiles were, according to that in