A47576:200
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.
and returns this An••er, that God commanded not the Sabbath to […] sanctified in the beginning of the World, […] it was commanded afterwards by the Law […] Moses, when God did publicly make known […] Will on Mount Sinai; and that whereas […] Scripture speaks of sanctifying the seventh […] in Gen. 2. it is not to be understood as if […] Lord did then appoint it for his public worship, but to be referred to the time wherein •oses wrote, which was in the Wilderness, &c. […] so the meaning of the Prophet will be ••iefly this, that God did sanctify that day, •at is, to us that are his People of the House […] Jacob. So far Tostatus. Our Author also cites […] Josephus speaking after the same manner:* and, ••th he, Solomon Jarchi, one of the principal •abbins, speaks more expressly to this purpose, […] makes this Gloss or Comment upon Moses's words: God blessed the seventh day, i. e. in Manna, because for every day of the week an Homer of it fell upon the Earth, and a double portion on the sixth; but none fell on the seventh •ay at all. He also quotes Mercer, one much conversant in the Rabbins, who confesses the Rabbins generally referred Gen. 2. to the following ••mes, even to the Sanctification of the Sabbath •stablish'd by the Law of Moses.—Doubtless •he Jews who so much doted on their Sabbath, would by no means have robbed it of so great Antiquity, had they had any ground to approve •hereof, or not known the contrary: so that the •cope of Moses in this place was not to show the time when, but the occasion why God did afterwards sanctify the seventh day, because ⟨p. 44⟩