A47576:311
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.
The words in Exod. 16. 23. express plainly enough the Institution of this day, by way of Information to the People, viz. To morrow is the Rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord bake that which you will bake to day, &c. And when the day came or begun, 1Moses said, Eat that to day, for to day is a Sabbath to the Lord▪ And in ver. 26. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
- 1Ver. 25.
Observe by the way, that here is not one word on what day the Manna first fell, so that none can tell this was the seventh day from the Creation; but that it was the seventh day after ⟨p. 77⟩the six days of its raining of Manna, is evident.
Observe by the way, that here is not one word on what day the Manna first fell, so that none can tell this was the seventh day from the Creation; but that it was the seventh day after ⟨p. 77⟩the six days of its raining of Manna, is evi•ent.
But to return to our business in hand: Here, • •ay, is the original, or first beginning of the Sabbath, that we read of, as to any Precept or junction on the People, or any observation of […] which was, as one observes, about a month fore Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai.