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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.
In the second place, they who hold the Sabbath was first instituted after Man's Fall, and yet written in Man's Heart in Innocency, and that he was then bound to keep it, fall into many Absurdities; as,
1. That Man was bound to keep a Sabbath before ever it was instituted.
2. That God did by his Word teach Man in vain, i. e. that which he was fully taught already, and had written in his heart.
3. That God gave Man a Law in vain after his Fall, because he was become unable to keep it.
4. They that hold that the Law of the Sabbath was not written in man's Heart, but was by a Positive Law given in the State of Innocency, of the same nature with that of eating of the Tree of Knowledge, make this Commandment of the Sabbath utterly void by Man's Fall, even as that of eating, &c. is now void. Thus far Mr. Walker. I might add, certainly there was a vast difference as to the Cause and Design of God's giving a Sabbath to Man in Innocency, and when fallen