A47576:1199
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.
Directions,1 saith he, have been given, and not a few, for the observation of a Day of holy Rest, which either for the matter of them, or the manner prescribed, have no sufficient warrant or foundation in the Scripture.
- 1Pag. 21.
Whereas some have made no distinction between the Sabbath as Moral*, and as Mosaical, unless it be merely in the change of the Day; and so have endeavoured to introduce the whole practice required on the latter into the Lord's Day.
Whereas some have made no distinction between the Sabbath as Moral*, and as Mosaical, unless it be merely in the change of the Day; and so have endeavour'd to introduce the whole practice required on the latter into the Lord's Day.
- *That is, one day in seven, as he calls it, a moral positive elsewhere.
Nay, as I shall show you, they have asserted the simple morality of the fourth Commandment to consist in the observance of the precise First-day of the Week, or the Lord's Day, as the Saturday Sabbatarians do on the Seventh; which is no small Error on both sides, and is attended, as I have proved, with great Absurdities, and dangerous Consequences.