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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
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Thirdly, If the Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath was wrote in Adam's Heart, some Remainders of the knowledge of that day would have been left in the Heart of his Offspring, as there is of all other Precepts that are simply moral: tho much blurred, and almost quite obliterated in some, yet there were many Heathens who retained, or recovered much knowledge of God's Law first written in the Heart of Man; yea, they were led to the knowledge of all pure moral Precepts, i.e. that there was but one God, and that he was to be worshipped, and his Name not profaned; that they should not murder, commit Adultery, steal, &c. nay and also to the knowledge of the fourth Commandment, as to what was simply moral in it, viz. a sufficient time to worship that God; yet they were none of them led to know that they ought to keep the seventh day as a Sabbath.
Thirdly, If the Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath was wrote in Adam's Heart, some Remainders of the knowledg of that day would have been left in the Heart of his Offspring, as there is of all other Precepts that are simply moral: tho much blur'd, and almost quite obliterated in some, yet there were many Heathens who retain'd, or recover'd much knowledg of God's Law first written in the Heart of Man; yea, they were led to the knowledg of all pure moral Precepts, i.e. that there was but one God, and that he was to be worshipped, and his Name not profan'd; that they should not murder, commit Adultery, steal, &c. nay and also to the knowledg of the fourth Commandment, as to what was simply moral in it, viz. a sufficient time to worship that God; yet they were none of them led to know that they ought to keep the seventh day as a Sabbath.
Fourthly, Moreover, if the Seventh-day Sabbath had been a simple, or pure moral Precept, and written in Adam's Heart, it would have been written in the Hearts of all God's New-Covenant ⟨p. 35⟩Children, as he promised he would write his Law there, in Gospel-times: and evident it is that all Believers in Christ, whether Jews or Gentiles, have the Image of God restored to them, it being stamped upon their Hearts by the Spirit of God; hence it is said, who after God are created in Righteousness, and true Holiness,