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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.
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 […].
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 〈…〉.
Eleventhly, Let me add one Argument more […] prove that the Patriarchs did not observe the seventh day as a Sabbath, viz. If the Patriarchs and all Mankind from the beginning of the World were or had been obliged to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, certainly there had •een some account given of the Penalty or Punishment due to Sabbath-breakers: but we read of no Penalty or Punishment to be inflicted on Sabbath-breakers; therefore we conclude they were not obliged to the observation thereof. How can it be thought that the Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath should be imposed upon them, and yet God should hide the Punishment due to the breach thereof from the World for more than two thousand years? Evident it is that they knew what Punishment was to be inflicted for the breach of other moral Precepts, as Murder, Adultery, &c. and if this were of like nature, i. e. a pure moral Duty, how came it to pass that God discovered not the Penalty to them for violating this Precept?