A47576:196
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.
Thus having given you the Proofs of those who assert the Sabbath was given to Man in Innocency, I shall now give you the Reasons urged •y others who affirm it was not given till Israel came into the Wilderness: Their Arguments are of two sorts.
Thus having given you the Proofs of those who assert the Sabbath was given to Man in In•ocency, I shall now give you the Reasons urg'd •y others who affirm it was not given till Israel came into the Wilderness: Their Arguments are of two sorts.
2. Others do not so much assert that, but •low it might be set apart in the design of God from his finishing his Work, and yet af••rm it was not given to any to keep till Israel's •oming into the Wilderness, when God was about to form them into an Ecclesiastical and Political Church-State; and appointed them Laws and Ordinances, particularly the Worship, Duties, and Sacrifices they were to discharge on their Sabbath-day. And indeed it may seem unreasonable to believe that the wise God shall give a Sabbath, not only for Rest, but for Divine Worship, before he appointed those Dues of Worship he would have them to perform on that day; which were essentially necessary for all to know, as well as the special precise Day it self.