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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.
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 ⟨p. 67⟩should not say one word more for it: I challenge them to show us one place where a Sabbath is so much as once mentioned, or any express or implicit Command given to any to observe it; or one Example from the Creation of the World that any Man or Woman ever kept the seventh day as a Sabbath until we come to Moses, Exod. 16. I shall, God assisting, show that we have more than mere Examples of the Gospel Primitive Churches for observing in a solemn manner the Lord's-day, or the first day of the week, when I come to that part of my Work.
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 ⟨p. 67⟩should not say one word more for it: I challenge them to shew us one place where a Sabbath is so much as once mention'd, or any express or implicit Command given to any to observe it; or one Example from the Creation of the World that any Man or Woman ever kept the seventh day as a Sabbath until we come to Moses,