A47576:1187
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.
However suppose it to belong also to the weekly Sabbath; it is evidently an addition to the Command particularly suited unto the Mosaical Pedagogy, that the Day might comprise the Sacrifice of the proceeding Evening ⟨p. 267⟩in the Service of it, from an Obedience whereunto we are freed by the Gospel. Neither can I subscribe to this Opinion; and that because in the Description and Limitation of the original Seven Days, it is said of each of the Six, that it was constituted of an Evening and a Morning; but of the Day of Rest there is no such description, it is only called the Seventh-day, without any assignation of the preceding Evening unto it.
However suppose it to belong also to the weekly Sabbath; it is evidently an addition to the Command particularly suted unto the Mosaical Pedagogy, that the Day might comprize the Sacrifice of the proceeding Evening ⟨p. 267⟩in the Service of it, from an Obedience whereunto we are freed by the Gospel. Neither can I subscribe to this Opinion; and that because in the Description and Limitation of the original Seven Days, it is said of each of the Six, that it was constituted of an Evening and a Morning; but of the Day of Rest there is no such description, it is only called the Seventh-day, without any assignation of the preceding Evening unto it.
2. A Day of Rest, according to Rules of natural Equity, ought to be proportioned to a day of Work or Labour, which God hath granted unto us for our own use. Now this is to be reckoned from Morning to Evening, Psal. 104. 20, 21, 22, 23. Thou makest darkness, and it is night, &c.—Man goeth forth to his labour until the evening. The day of Labour is from the removal of darkness, and the night by the light of the Sun, until the return of them again; which allowing for the alterations of the day in the several seasons of the year, seems to be the just measure of our Day of Rest.