A47576:1201
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.
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.
I answer, First Negatively, not after that legal, severe, or strict manner, as was the Jewish Sabbath under the Law. I am persuaded some good Men in the last Century have by an overheated Zeal, stumbled many godly Christians, by pressing the Lord's Day observance just after the manner of the old Jewish Sabbath; as if one precise Day of Worship was a pure moral Precept. But if the morality of the fourth Command consisted not in the observation of the precise Seventh-day, as I have showed, be sure it doth not in the observance of the First-day, tho it be our Duty, by mere positive Right, to keep it wholly to the Lord. And should we press the observance of the Lord's Day with that severity and strictness the Seventh-day Sabbath was to be observed, we should bring our People into equal bondage with the Jews of old.
I answer, First Negatively, not after that legal, severe, or strict manner, as was the Jewish Sabbath under the Law. I am perswaded some good Men in the last Century have by an overheated Zeal, stumbled many godly Christians, by pressing the Lord's Day observance just after the manner of the old Jewish Sabbath; as if one precise Day of Worship was a pure moral Precept. But if the morality of the fourth Command consisted not in the observation of the precise Seventh-day, as I have shewed, besure it doth not in the observance of the First-day, tho it be our Duty, by mere positive Right, to keep it wholly to the Lord. And should we press the observance of the Lord's Day with that severity and strictness the Seventh-day Sabbath was to be observed, we should bring our People into equal bondage with the Jews of old.