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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.
2. Because God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. 1Dr. Owen, after he had showed that some Jews and Rabbins affirm, the Sabbath did not begin till the Israelites came into the Wilderness, tho some of them differed in their Opinions about its Commencement; comes to tell us,2 That the Opinion of the Institution of the Sabbath from the beginning of the World, is founded principally on a double Testimony: First, From the Old Testament, Gen. 2. 1, 2, 3. because Moses saith, God blessed the seventh day, 3and sanctified it; not, saith he, ⟨p. 40⟩that God kept it holy himself, nor that he purified it, and made it inherently holy, which the nature of the day is not capable of; nor that he celebrated that which in it self was holy; but that he set it apart to sacred use. Secondly, The Testimony to the same purpose, saith he, taken out of the New Testament, is in Heb. 4. 3, 4. For we which believe do enter into Rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my Wrath, if they shall enter into my Rest, although the Works were finished from the Foundation of the World. For he speaketh in a certain place on this wise, And God did rest the Seventh Day from all his Works. Now, saith the Doctor, the Works, and the finishing of them, did not at all belong to the Apostle's Discourse, but only as they denoted the beginning of the Seventh-day Sabbath; for it is the several Rests of God alone that he is enquiring after. But to pass by what the Doctor saith;