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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
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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?
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 oblig'd 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 discover'd not the Penalty to them for violating this Precept?
Twelfthly, My last Argument is this; The Sabbath under the Old Testament had a respect to a stated, and stinted instituted Worship in a National Church: but the Patriarchs, and all God's People from Adam to Moses were not brought into such an Ecclesiastical and Political Church-state; and from hence it seems to me they were not enjoined to observe the Seventh-day Sabbath: that is, they had no instituted, stated, and stinted Worship, nor any in a Magistratical