A47576:1154
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.
Object. What if we grant that all the ten Commandments belonged, or were annexed to the Mosaical Economy; are all the ten Commandments abrogated therefore, or not in force to us?
Object. What if we grant that all the ten Commandments belonged, or were annexed to the Mosaical Oeconomy; are all the ten Commandments abrogated therefore, or not in force to us?
Answ. I have showed that the whole Moral Law is given forth by Christ considered as Mediator; and that we are not obliged to observe them as given by Moses: and the precise seventh Day being no simple Moral Precept, but merely Judaical, pertaining to the Covenant of Works, our Lord hath not nor could confirm that Precept in the Gospel: so that it appears the Sabbath only belonged to the Mosaical Economy, and will you affirm that of all the Ten.
Answ. I have shewed that the whole Moral Law is given forth by Christ considered as Mediator; and that we are not obliged to observe them as given by Moses: and the precise seventh Day being no simple Moral Precept, but merely Judaical, pertaining to the Covenant of Works, our Lord hath not nor could confirm that Precept in the Gospel: so that it appears the Sabbath only belonged to the Mosaical Oeconomy, and will you affirm that of all the Ten.
One Sabbatarian *saith, That all the ten Commandments had the Penalty of Death annexed to them to be inflicted by the Magistrate: which, saith he, is an evident distinction between Moral Laws and Laws Ceremonial, &c. Again he saith, 2the Sabbath having the same Penalty that the other nine have, it convincingly proves the Morality of it.