A47576:147
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.
12. Whether from the fourth Commandment, as one Day in seven, or only unto some part or portion of Time; or whether without any respect unto that Command as purely Ceremonial. For granting (as most do) the necessity of the observation of such a Day; yet some say that it has no respect at all to the fourth decalogical Precept, which is totally and absolutely abolished, with the rest of the Mosaical Institutions. Others say that there is yet remaining in it an Obligation to the Sacred Separation of some Time, or portion of Time, unto the solemn Service of God, (and some say that it precisely requires the sanctification of one Day in seven.)
13. If a Day be so now to be observed, it is enquired on what Ground, or on what Authority there is an alteration made from the Day observed under the Old Testament, to that now in use, that is, from the last Day to the first Day of the Week; whether was this Translation of the Day of the solemn Worship of God made by Christ and his Apostles, or by the Primitive Church? &c.
14. If this were done by the Authority of Christ and his Apostles, whether by an express Institution of this new Day, or whether a direct Example be sufficient, no Institution being needful for the First Day: for if we suppose there is no Obligation to the observance of one Day in seven indispensably abiding; and on the supposition that an Obligation to keep one Day in seven doth abide, then no Institution is necessary, or can be properly made as to the whole nature of it*. Thus far the Doctor, who says many other things necessary to be considered about the observation of a Day of Worship, whether as ⟨p. 28⟩to the Work of the Day it ought to be kept with the like strictness as the Jewish Sabbath in all respects, and what Duties are to be performed on it; as also as to the proper Limits of that Day, some pleading it ought to be from Evening to Evening as the Jews kept it, or from Morning to Evening, that is from after twelve a Clock in the Morning to twelve the next Evening, &c.