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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.
Tenthly, I might also add here what some learned Men seem to affirm, i. e. that 'tis doubtful whether the Patriarchs had the distinction of Days into Weeks, but rather reckoned by Months and Years; so that the precise seventh day from the Creation cannot be certainly known: and 'tis thought that the Jews observed their seventh day from the falling of Manna six days, 1but none on the seventh. No doubt but it is impossible for any to know that that was the precise seventh day from the Creation.
Tenthly, I might also add here what some learned Men seem to affirm, i. e. that 'tis doubtful whether the Patriarchs had the distinction of Days into Weeks, but rather reckon'd by Months and Years; so that the precise seventh day from the Creation cannot be certainly known: and 'tis thought that the Jews observ'd their seventh day from the falling of Manna six days, 1but none on the seventh. No doubt but it is impossible for any to know that that was the precise seventh day from the Creation.
- 1The Jews reckon'd their Seventh-day Sabbath from the falling of Manna.
But it may not be amiss to answer our Opponents as to what they say about the Scripture not mentioning any Sabbath from Adam to Moses, or any Precept or Remembrance of it, and yet things of less moment are punctually recited.
1. This they say, that we read not of Circumcision performed during all the time of Israel's being in Egypt, which was near four hundred years, till Zippora circumcised her Son.