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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.
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.
Nay, as I shall shew 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.
Therefore if any ask how should we observe the Lord's Day; for we are fully satisfied, say they, that is the Day the Lord hath made as the Day of Rest and solemn Worship under the Gospel.