A47576:1243
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.
Is it not Sacrilege to rob God of his Day (for any external advantage) which he hath dedicated and set apart for his own Worship? &c. He that converts any time of the Lord's Day,1 saith one, to worldly Business, is a worse Thief than he that robs on the High-way: for such a Thief does but rob Man, but this Thief robs God, he robs him of his Day.
- 1Watson's Body of Divinity, p. 335.
6. Such as spend part of it in casting up their Debts, or setting their Shop-books right.
7. Such as take liberty to lie long abed on the Lord's Day, and prefer their carnal Ease above the Honour of Christ and his sacred Worship, to the reproach of his Church, and grief of his Ministers.
8. Such as spend more time on the Morning of the Lord's Day, to dress and trim their Bodies, than they take in Prayer, Reading, and Meditation, to prepare their Souls for God's holy Worship: These should be taken notice of and reproved; perhaps all the Morning is spent thus, and not two Minutes either in Prayer, Reading, or Meditation.