A47576:317
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.
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⟩Covenant with our Fathers, but with us, even […] who are alive this day.
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⟩Covenant with our Fathers, but with us, even 〈…〉 who are alive this day.
Their Fathers had the Covenant and all the Precepts before materially, as to the substance of them, or what was simply moral; but the• had not this Covenant, nor those Precepts formally given to them, and so not the precise seventh day.
3. If the People did know there was a Sabbath given in charge to Moses before Manna it might refer to that chap. 15. yet they might not know what particular day it was to begin on, or which day should be the day of their first Sabbath, nor know yet how to keep it. Fo