A47576:1207
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. I do not believe 'tis unlawful to travel further than a Jewish Sabbath-days Journey; whether to to hear a Sermon, or to visit a sick Person, or the like.
We have no bounds under the Gospel,1 saith Dr. Owen, for a Sabbath-days Journey, provided it be for Sabbath Ends. In brief, all Pains or Labour that our Station and Condition in this World, as Troubles may befall us, make necessary, as that without which we cannot enjoy the solemn Ends and Uses of this sacred Day of Rest, are no way inconsistent with the due observation of it. It may be the lot of one Man to take so much pains, and to travel so far for and in the due Celebration of the Lord's-day, as if another should do the like without his Occasions and Circumstances, it would be a profanation of it.
We have no bounds under the Gospel,1 saith Dr. Owen, for a Sabbath-days Journy, provided it be for Sabbath Ends. In brief, all Pains or Labour that our Station and Condition in this World, as Troubles may befal us, make necessary, as that without which we cannot enjoy the solemn Ends and Uses of this sacred Day of Rest, are no way inconsistent with the due observation of it. It may be the lot of one Man to take so much pains, and to travel so far for and in the due Celebration of the Lord's-day, as if another should do the like without his Occasions and Circumstances, it would be a profanation of it.
- 1On the Sab. p. 353.
3. I do not believe it unlawful to dress a Dinner or Supper on the Lord's-day. Refreshments helpful to Nature so far as to refresh it, that it may have a supply of Spirits to go on cheerfully in the Duties of holy Worship (saith the Doctor) are lawful and useful: to macerate the Body with Abstinences on this day, is required of none; and to turn it into a Fast, or to fast upon this day, is generally condemned by the Ancients. Wherefore to forbear provision of necessary Food for Families on this day, is Mosaical; and the enforcement of the particular Precepts about not kindling a Fire on this day, baking and preparing the Food of it the day before, cannot be insisted on without a Reintroduction of the seventh Day precisely, to whose observation they were annexed, and