A47576:1144
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.
But one thing I have omitted, viz. I find these Sabbatarians would make great Improvement of the Records of Parliament, in which Saturday is called Dies Sabbati, the Sabbath-day.
In Answer take what Dr. Wallis hath said in his Rejoinder to Mr. Bampfield.1
- 1Pag. 32.
I remember you tell us, Enqu. p. 117, 118. and you mind me of it, p. 40, 75. that I say nothing to it (being it seems a thing on which you lay great weight) i. e. that in the Records of Parliament, and the Courts at Westminster, Saturday is called Sabbati, or Dies Sabbati. True (as supposing by Tradition this day of our week to be what the Jews called the Sabbath in their week) but do you not know also in the same Records Sunday is called Dies Dominicus, the Lord's-day? And if those prove Saturday to be the Jewish Sabbath, why should not these as well prove Sunday to be the Lord's-day? All the difference is, as to that you were quick-sighted, but blind as to this. You may observe also that the one is Sabbati, or Dies Sabbati (in the Genitive case, in the same form with Dies Saturni, and as the other days are) but the Lord's-day is Die Dominico in the Ablative, meaning (I suppose) that Saturday is the day which had been the Jewish Sabbath, but this the day which is the Lord's-day. Which different Construction seems plainly to intend in our Law a different import of the words: by Dies Saturni, or Dies Lunae, we do not mean a Day instituted by Saturn or the Moon, as by Dies Dominica we do mean the Day instituted by our Lord; like as by Coena Dominica we mean the Supper instituted by our Lord▪ So that these Records do you no Service at all, but Disservice.