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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.
Answ. I answer, God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, but did not give any Command to Adam to keep it; therefore the Patriarchs from thence could not know, or see they had any ground to observe it.
Dr. Twiss saith in the same place, i. e. And the truth is, until the coming of the Children of Israel out of Egypt we read not of any Church of God any where but in single Families; neither do we read of the Patriarchs before the Flood, or a long time after, that they kept any day consecrated to God's Service.
But we say with him, that it doth not therefore follow that they kept no day at all in God's Service. They owned the True God, and worshipped him, and knew that there must be a time, a sufficient time to discharge that Homage or Worship to him; and tho perhaps they observed one day in seven, yet, as I conceive, they did not know what precise day they ought to observe above any other, until God by some express positive Command made it known, which was not till he constituted the whole House of Israel into a Typical Churchstate, and gave them an instituted Worship, and commanded their Legal and Typical Sabbath.
But we say with him, that it doth not therefore follow that they kept no day at all in God's Service. They owned the True God, and worshipped him, and knew that there must be a time, a sufficient time to discharge that Homage or Worship to him; and tho perhaps they observ'd one day in seven, yet, as I conceive, they did not know what precise day they ought to observe above any other, until God by some express positive Command made it known, which was not till he constituted the whole House of Israel into a Typical Churchstate, and gave them an instituted Worship, and commanded their Legal and Typical Sabbath.