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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.
1. Let it be considered, that if the keeping of the Seventh-Day as a Sabbath, i. e. that precise Day from the Creation of the World, were a purely natural or simply moral Precept, no doubt but it was legibly written in Adam's Heart; I mean as a Law of Creation, and so part of the holy Image of God, or of the same nature with all other moral Precepts that result from the Perfections of God's holy Nature, ⟨p. 30⟩and not from the Sovereignty of his Will only: And if it was so written in Adam's Heart in Innocency, he needed no positive Law to make it known to him. What, was any thing that was purely or simply moral, even that which belonged to good Manners, or to true natural Godliness or Righteousness, not made known to Adam, to perfect Adam? this certainly cannot be.
1. Let it be considered, that if the keeping of the Seventh-Day as a Sabbath, i. e. that precise Day from the Creation of the World, were a purely natural or simply moral Precept, no doubt but it was legibly written in Adam's Heart; I mean as a Law of Creation, and so part of the holy Image of God, or of the same nature with all other moral Precepts that result from the Perfections of God's holy Nature, ⟨p. 30⟩and not from the Soveraignty of his Will only: And if it was so written in Adam's Heart in Innocency, he needed no positive Law to make it known to him. What, was any thing that was purely or simply moral, even that which belonged to good Manners, or to true natural Godliness or Righteousness, not made known to Adam, to perfect Adam? this certainly cannot be.
That spiritual Worship which is due to God,1 saith Mr. Charnock, is known by the Light of Nature: But much more, say I, was it clearly manifested to Adam in Innocency. But furthermore, saith he, the outward means or matter of that Worship which would be acceptable to God, was not known by the Light of Nature: the Law for a spiritual Worship by the Faculties of our Souls was natural, and part of the Law of Creation; tho the determination of the particular Acts, whereby God would have this Homage testified, was of positive Institution, and depended not on the Law of Creation. Tho Adam in Innocence knew God was to be worshipped, yet by nature he did not know by what outward Acts he was to pay this Respect, or at what Time he was more solemnly to be exercised in it than another: This depended on the Directions God, as the Sovereign Governor and Lawgiver, should prescribe; you shall therefore find the positive Institution It is observable that this great Man is not here concerned to confute the Seventh-day Sabbatarians, but about another thing; yet affirms (with many other Learned Men) that Adam by the Law of Creation, did not know in Innocency at what time God was more solemnly to be worshipped than another.