A47576:1218
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.
It was preached in Suffolk, (I can name the Man, and I was present when he was convened before his Ordinary for preaching the same) that to ring more Bells than one on the Lord's-day to call the People to Church, is as great a Sin as to commit Murder.
Such unaccountable Zeal hath done no small mischief to the Cause of Christ.
Two things I observe from what the Doctor notes:
1. That these Men thought we are under the like Obligation in observance of the first Day, as the Jews were on their seventh Day.
2. That they thought the Morality of the fourth Commandment consisted in the observation of the Lord's-day, or the first Day of the week, and so is a pure Moral Precept; both which I utterly deny, and the contrary I have proved.