A47576:269
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.
Now let them produce but one Example, that •ne, tho but one of the Patriarchs did keep the seventh day as a Sabbath, I will conclude it might be given to Adam after his Fall; for before his Fall it could not be a Law to him, for the reasons I have urged: but if they could produce such an Example, yet say some learned Men, it doth no more prove that precise day is a moral Precept, or that it from hence follows, that it is our Duty in Gospel-times to observe it, than it proves 'tis our Duty to offer Sacrifices, which we read (before the Ceremonial Law was given) they frequently did.
Now let them produce but one Example, that •ne, tho but one of the Patriarchs did keep the •eventh day as a Sabbath, I will conclude it might be given to Adam after his Fall; for before his Fall it could not be a Law to him, for the reasons I have urged: but if they could produce such an Example, yet say some learned Men, it doth no more prove that precise day is a moral Precept, or that it from hence follows, that it is our Duty in Gospel-times to observe it, than it proves 'tis our Duty to offer Sacrifices, which we read (before the Ceremonial Law was given) they frequently did.
But since there is not one Instance to be given of any one Person that kept that day till Moses's time, but that the Word of God is wholly silent about it, we must and may say, according to that common Maxim used by Divines, i. e. Where God hath not a Mouth to speak, we ought not to have an Ear to hear.
Ninthly, 1Let us now consider what some learned Men have produced for their pretended Proofs that the Patriarchs kept the seventh day as a Sabbath, which I fear hath emboldened the Jewish Sabbatarians to affirm with such Confidence