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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.
Secondly, I argue thus: If the precise Seventh-day was written in Adam's Heart,1 there had been no need of an Institution or positive Law to make it known to him; for, what more need had he of an outward Revelation of this, than of the other Commandments?
- 1The Law of the 7th day Sabbath not written in Adam's Heart.
Take here what a Learned Man hath said: *If the keeping of the Seventh-day were a Moral Duty, our Father Adam, by that Light of Nature God put in his Mind when he created him, would have known it, as well as he knew all other things in themselves good and necessary; but he neither had, nor should have had any knowledge thereof, if God had not enjoined it to him by a particular Command, (as those which maintain the morality of the Sabbath do avouch.) So that this followeth manifestly, that the observation of the Seventh-day depends merely on Institution.
Take here what a Learned Man hath said: *If the keeping of the Seventh-day were a Moral Duty, our Father Adam, by that Light of Nature God put in his Mind when he created him, would have known it, as well as he knew all other things in themselves good and necessary; but he neither had, nor should have had any knowledg thereof, if God had not injoined it to him by a particular Command, (as those which maintain the morality of the Sabbath do avouch.) So that this followeth manifestly, that the observation of the Seventh-day depends merely on Institution.
- *Mr. P. a Minister at Rouen in France, p. 3.