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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.
5. Whether the Institution of the Seventh-day Sabbath was from the beginning of the World, and before the Fall of Man; or whether it was first appointed when the Israelites came into the Wilderness. This in it self is only a matter of Fact, yet such as whereon the determination of a point of right, as to the universal Obligation to the Observation ⟨p. 25⟩of such a Day doth much depend,* and therefore hath the investigation and true sta••ng of it, been much la•our'd in, and after by learned Men.
- *So that, according to the Doctor, if it was not instituted in Paradise, tho given forth in the Wilderness, it can't be universally obligatory on all Mankind.
6. Upon a supposition of the Institution of the Sabbath from the beginning, whether the Additions made, and Observances annexed unto it at the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, with the Ends whereunto it was then designed, and the Uses whereunto it was employed, gave unto the seventh day a new state distinct from what it had before; although naturally the same day was continued as before. For if they did so, that new state of the day seems only to be taken away under the New Testament; if not, the day it self seems to be abolished; †for that some change is made therein, from what was fixed under the Judaical Economy, cannot modestly be denied.
6. Upon a supposition of the Institution of the Sabbath from the beginning, whether the Additions made, and Observances annexed unto it at the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, with the Ends whereunto it was then design'd, and the Uses whereunto it was employ'd, gave unto the seventh day a new state distinct from what it had before; altho naturally the same day was continued as before. For if they did so, that new state of the day seems only to be taken away under the New Testament; if not, the day it self seems to be abolish'd;