A47576:1188
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.
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.
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his Resurrection gave beginning and being to this especial Day of holy Rest under the Gospel, rose not until the Morning of the First-day of the Week, when the beamings of the light of the Sun began to expel the darkness of the Night; or when it dawned towards Day, as is variously expressed by the Evangelists: This with me determines this whole matter.
4. Mere cessation from Labour in the Night, seems to have no place in the spiritual Rest of the Gospel to be expressed on this Day, nor to be by any thing distinguished ⟨p. 268⟩from the Night of any other day in the Week.
4. Meer cessation from Labour in the Night, seems to have no place in the spiritual Rest of the Gospel to be expressed on this Day, nor to be by any thing distinguished ⟨p. 268⟩from the Night of any other day in the Week.