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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.
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.
My Brethren, Let this be considered well, that if the knowledge of the Seventh-day wholly depended on the Will of God, or on mere Institution, and resulted not, as all pure and simple moral Precepts do, from the holy Rectitude of God's Nature, it follows that the precise Day pertains not to the Essence of the Fourth Commandment, but the simple Morality of that Precept lies only in a time of Worship: And certainly if God by a mere positive Command had not given it to Israel, they had no more known it their duty to keep it, than the Pagan World did, who were wholly ignorant ⟨p. 32⟩