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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.
Abel we read sacrificed; and this of offering Sacrifices could not be known by the Light of Nature; God therefore commanded him so to do, or revealed it some way or another in a supernatural way to him, because him and his Offering God had respect unto: besides, he did it in Faith, and Faith must have a Rule to act by; but we do not read he offered Sacrifices on the seventh day, or kept that day as a Sabbath: had he kept one Sabbath-day, tho no mention is made of any Command he had so to do, we should no more doubt of it, but conclude he had such a Command, as we believe he had for his offering Sacrifices; but if he or any other of the Patriarchs had kept the seventh day as a Sabbath, would it from thence follow it was a moral Precept, and obligatory on us, any more than their offering Sacrifices obliges us so to do?
Abel we read sacrificed; and this of offering Sacrifices could not be known by the Light of Nature; God therefore commanded him so to do, or revealed it some way or another in a supernatural way to him, because him and his Offering God had respect unto: besides, he did it in Faith, and Faith must have a Rule to act by; but we do not read he offer'd Sacrifices on the seventh day, or kept that day as a Sabbath: had he kept one Sabbath-day, tho no mention is made of any Command he had so to do, we should no more doubt of it, but conclude he had such a Command, as we believe he had for his offering Sacrifices; but if he or any other of the Patriarchs had kept the seventh day as a Sabbath, would it from thence follow it was a moral Precept, and obligatory on us, any more than their offering Sacrifices obliges us so to do?
We read of Men who began to call upon the Name of the Lord, Gen. 4. 26. or to call themselves by the Name of the Lord, as one reads it,1 but not a word of such a Sabbath observed by them. Ainsworth reads it thus, Then began Men profanely to call upon the Name of the Lord: and one of the Rabbins *