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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.
Seventhly, 1Let it be considered, that since God so severely reprehended the Jews for profaning his Sabbaths, and hardly reproved them more sharply for any one Sin than for this; certainly in his enumerating the Sins […] his People, and of the Wickedness of those that lived from Adam to Moses, he would have reproved them for Sabbath-breaking, and not have utterly passed it by in silence, had they been guilty of it: or can it be rationally supposed that tho they failed in all other respects, yet that they did not in this? No doubt, had it been a known Duty, (and that some of them had been guilty of the breach of it, as in all likelihood they would) but God would have severely reprehended them for it.
Seventhly, 1Let it be consider'd, that since God so severely reprehended the Jews for profaning his Sabbaths, and hardly reproved them more sharply for any one Sin than for this; certainly in his enumerating the Sins 〈…〉 his People, and of the Wickedness of those that liv'd from Adam to Moses, he would have reproved them for Sabbath-breaking, and not have utterly passed it by in silence, had they been guilty of it: or can it be rationally supposed that tho they fail'd in all other respects, yet that they did not in this? No doubt, had it been a known Duty, (and that some of them had been guilty of the breach of it, as in all likelihood they would) but God would have severely reprehended them for it.
- 1None from Adam to Moses reprehended for not keeping the Sabbath.
Eighthly, Since we read of no Sabbath till Moses's time, Exod. 16. only that God sanctified the seventh day; what makes our Brethren so boldly say that Adam in Innocence kept it, and all the Patriarchs from Adam to Moses? This may seem strange to any thinking Man, i. e. that they should affirm this, seeing they require an express Command from us for the keeping of the first day, or else all is nothing with them. Brethren, this I will say, that had we no more ground to keep the Lord's day in solemn Worship, as a day of Rest, than they can find for the Patriarchs keeping of the seventh day as a Sabbath, we