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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.
X. He coveted an evil Covetousness, like Ammon, which cost him his Life and all his Progeny.
Fourth Proposit. That tho a time of Rest, and a sufficient time to worship God be moral, yet the particular precise day or time must be by Revelation, i. e. by some positive Precept or Example made known to Mankind; it being in God, not in Man, not in Nature, not in Grace: And God hath reserved to himself a Power to require, or to alter both the time, place, and modes of his Worship as seems good in his sight, tho the second and fourth Commandments be moral and of the same nature with the rest. Moreover, God if he please may make a positive Precept perpetual, and alike obligatory as simple moral Precepts are, tho they differ in respect of their own nature.
Fifth Proposit. All natural and pure moral Precepts do, as I conceive, oblige all Mankind, and are unchangeable in their nature as to the matter of them, and differ greatly from Laws or Precepts merely positive. Pure or simple moral Precepts are good, good in themselves, and therefore commanded; but Precepts merely positive and arbitrary are commanded of God, and therefore good: and that Goodness that is in simple moral Precepts I do not conceive, 1as Mr. Shepherd hints (if I mistake him not) refers to Man, i. e. suitable to his good chiefly, but in reference to God, from the rectitude of whose holy Nature they proceed. Moreover, 'tis acknowledged also that all Precepts naturally and simply moral, are written in the Hearts of all Men, tho much blurred by Sin, for otherwise the Gentiles had not the Law written in their Hearts, but a part as to the matter of the Law.2