A47576:315
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. I answer in the words of our late Author:1 This is a force put upon the words, and a gross mistake; for it is evidently spoken of as a new thing, else what means that frequent Inculcation to make the People take notice of it, if it had been familiar to them before? And what means the coming of the Rulers of the Congregation to Moses to consult him as on an unusual and unknown matter?2
- 1Grascome's History of the Sab. p. 76.
- 2Exod. 16. 22.
2. And let me add, they were told that they should gather it six days, and that there should be none found on the seventh; and yet some of the People went to gather it on the seventh day, as not being yet well acquainted with their Sabbath, ver. 26, 27. and this displeased the Lord; and therefore Moses again told them, ver. 29. See, for the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day Bread for two days.
He hath given you the Sabbath; Doth not •his imply he had not given it to any before? To you, and none else; to you, and to none that went before you, as he spake to them afterwards, Deut. 5. 2, 3. As to his Laws and Covenant on Mount Sinai, the Covenant which God made with us in Horeb, the Lord made not this ⟨p. 78⟩