A47576:296
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.
1. We may infer,1 that if the Patriarchs kept the seventh day, they had the knowledge of it by the Light of Nature, or by a positive Command; but they had not the knowledge of it by the Light of Nature, nor by any positive Command, therefore they observed it not.
1. We may infer,1 that if the Patriarchs kept the seventh day, they had the knowledg of it by the Light of Nature, or by a positive Command; but they had not the knowledg of it by the Light of Nature, nor by any positive Command, therefore they observ'd it not.
- 1The Arguments against the Patriarchs keeping the Sabbath […] up.The Arguments against the Patriarchs keeping the Sabbath 〈…〉 up.
2. If they kept it by virtue of an express Command and Institution, they had no doubt some Directions about the due observation thereof, and instituted Sabbath-days Worship: but they had no Directions about it, nor instituted Sabbath-days Worship; therefore they did not observe it.
3. Certainly if the Patriarchs were obliged to observe the seventh day as a Sabbath, God would either have commended them, or some ⟨p. 73⟩of them for keeping it, or else reprehended others for not keeping it: but God neither commended any of them for the keeping it, nor reprehended any others for profaning, and not eeping it; therefore none of them did observe […].