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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.
But to proceed to answer what is affirmed about its Institution in Paradise, as given to innocent Adam; we will come to, and well weigh the words of this pretended positive Precept given to ⟨p. 38⟩Adam in Paradise: Gen. 2. 2. And on the seventh day God ended his Work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his Work which he had made. Ver. 3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all Work, which God created and made. These are the words which contain what is called the Institution and Command of the Sabbath to Adam in Paradise. Tillam and others make a great noise of the Sabbath instituted in Paradise, and given to Adam to keep: but Brethren, I must tell you that the Learned strangely differ among themselves, who would have the Antiquity of the Sabbath thus early; some of them affirming it was given to Adam in Innocency; others say not till he fell. One speaks thus;1 And for the time when God first instituted the Sabbath, I conceived it to have been not in the state of Innocency, but after Mans Fall immediately, and yet upon the seventh day, wherein God rested. These are his very words. From hence I observe, he believed Adam did not stand in his Innocency one day, and this he endeavours to prove; and others as well as he, Men of great Learning and Wisdom. Let me cite here one more*, I shall propose (saith he) and endeavour to prove a counter Position, namely, that it seems more consonant to Scripture (tho at the beginning) yet after the Fall in Man's corrupt and vitiated state, the probation whereof depends much (tho not altogether) upon the decision of that often canvassed Question, whether our first Parents sinned the same day on which they were created.
But to proceed to answer what is affirm'd about its Institution in Paradise, as given to innocent Adam; we will come to, and well weigh the words of this pretended positive Precept given to ⟨p. 38⟩Adam in Paradise: