A47576:141
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.
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; †for that some change is made therein, from what was fixed under the Judaical Oeconomy, cannot modestly be deny'd.
- †The Doctor still, as it seems to me, builds chiefly on its Institution in Paradise, where we can find no Institution referring to innocent Adam.
7. Whether in the fourth Commandment, there be a foundation of a distinction between a seventh day in general, or one day in seven, and that seventh day which was the same numerically and precisely from the foundation of the World. For whereas an Obligation unto the strict Observation of that day precisely is, as we shall prove, plainly taken away in the Gospel, if the distinction intimated be not allowed, there can be nothing remaining obligatory unto us in that Command, whilst it is supposed that that day (the Doctor means the seventh day) is at all required of us from thence