A47576:1209
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.
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 ⟨p. 273⟩thereby of the Spirit of the old Covenant.
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 chearfully 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 condemn'd by the Antients. 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 ⟨p. 273⟩thereby of the Spirit of the old Covenant.
1. Provided always these Refreshments be seasonable for the time of them, and not when public Duties require our attendance on them. And,
1. Provided always these Refreshments be seasonable for the time of them, and not when publick Duties require our attendance on them. And,