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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.
1. By way of Purpose and Destination only, as God sanctified Jeremiah to be a Prophet to him before he was born.
2. By way of actual use and employment, as when the Levites were admitted to the actual Service of the Tabernacle. God's resting from his Works,1 and sanctifying the seventh day, were coetaneous in the first sense, i. e. by way of Purpose and Intention, which Moses relates; but not in the latter, by way of actual Execution. As soon as he had ended his Work, he ordained the seventh day, the day of his own Rest, to be that on which his Church should rest, and follow his Example; and this was the great Blessing and Prerogative bestowed on that day.2 Musculus saith, he dos well express Sanctificatus by ⟨p. 50⟩destinatus, a day sanctified, by a day destinated and afore-appointed.3 Mr. Byfield has observed, That the word in the original signifies to prepare: to prepare is one thing, and actually to appoint is another. So then the Sabbath had not an actual existence in the World from the beginning, it had only a metaphysical being, as all natural things are said to be in their Causes: for the cause or reason of the Sabbath's Sanctification (God's Rest) was from the beginning, tho the Sanctification it self was a long time after. Yet he owns God did sanctify the day then by way of Destination—That as God then actually rested, so he actually sanctified the day; but that therefore he then commanded Adam to observe it, doth not follow: for that God did then sanctify, that is, destinate that day to be the Church's Sabbath in due time, is one thing; and to command Adam to observe it▪ is another.—He proceeds to show how the Medes were called God's sanctified ones, that is▪ destinated to be in time Destroyers of Babylon and the Father sanctified his Son, and sent hi into the World;