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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.
Reader, I did not (for some reasons) deliver from the Pulpit great part of what is here published; and also some things I might say that are here omitted, which being not in my Notes, I could not remember.
Dr. Owen, Dr. Wallis, Mr. Warren, &c. in particular, with several other Reverend Ministers, have said enough to satisfy any on this Subject, whose Books have not ever been answered. In my Citations of divers Authors, I have transcribed both the Greek and Latin, that all may know the original words, of which our Opponents would make some earnings; and I can solemnly say I have not wilfully mist in any Quotation. And if any of these Sabbatarians make Reply to me, let them rather answer them (especially those three I have now mentioned) than me, it will be more for their Honour: And this I will say, if they do think to reply, unless they answer what these and other learned Men have said which I have here recited, I shall take it for no Answer at all: Let them therefore attempt to do it effectually, or not meddle with it.
'Tis true, I differ from divers learned Men in one or two things I have cited, and from Reverend Dr. Owen particularly, i. e. about Adam in Innocency, and the Patriarchs keeping the seventh Day; yet what the Doctor saith on Heb. 4. doth well ⟨p. v⟩comport with my Principle: but tho as soon as God finished his Work, he rested, and that day of Rest ensued thereon, to answer the end of Creation, and the Covenant of Works; yet I can't see any ground to believe it was given to any to observe until Moses's time, Exod. 16. for reasons I and others have given. Moreover, Dr. Wallis has showed in his Rejoinder to Mr. Bamfield, p. 123. that that very Day before it rained Manna could not be a Sabbath, because on that day Quails covered the Camp, and they were not forbid to gather them,