A47576:212
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.
Sixthly, Since we read of no day called […] Sabbath till near two thousand years from th• Creation, how should any before the Flood• or before Moses, know of such a day? for th• bear Expression, that God sanctified the sevent• day, &c. if that was known to the old World and afterwards (which I much doubt of) could not without some other Revelation discover that they were obliged to keep it as a Sabbath in religious Worship: tho it is said, God sanctified the seventh day, yet it is not said that Ada• also sanctified it, nor can they tell how Adam should know that God then sanctified it; for being not created till the sixth day, how could he, without some special Revelation, know the next day after was the seventh day from the Creation? Could he tell how long God was in making the Heavens and the Earth? &c. Moreover, 'tis worth noting how strenuously our Opponents do urge that there is no express Command to keep the first day. Now may not w• say, there is no express Command for Adam in Innocency, or when fallen, or for any till Moses's time to keep the seventh day as a Sabbath? yet they boldly affirm it was their duty to keep it.
Sixthly, Since we read of no day call'd 〈…〉 Sabbath till near two thousand years from th• Creation, how should any before the Flood• or before Moses, know of such a day? for th• bear Expression, that God sanctified the sevent• day, &c. if that was known to the old World and afterwards (which I much doubt of) could not without some other Revelation discover that they were obliged to keep it as a Sabbath in religious Worship: tho it is said, God sanctified the seventh day, yet it is not said that Ada• also sanctified it, nor can they tell how Adam should know that God then sanctified it; for being not created till the sixth day, how could he, without some special Revelation, know the next day after was the seventh day from the Creation? Could he tell how long God was in making the Heavens and the Earth? &c. Moreover, 'tis worth noting how strenuously our Opponents do urge that there is no express Command to keep the first day. Now may not w say, there is no express Command for Adam in Innocency, or when fallen, or for any till Moses's time to keep the seventh day as a Sabbath? yet they boldly affirm it was their duty to keep it.