A47576:338
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.
I think Mr. Baxter in this case has said excellently well:1 Moral, saith he, signifieth that which by nature is universal and perpetually obligatory. He answers this Question, Do not Divines say the Decalogue written in Stone is the Moral Law, and of perpetual Obligation? Answ. Yes, for by moral they mean natural, and so take moral not in a large sense, as it signifies a Law de moribus, as all Laws be whatsoever; but in a narrower sense, as signifying that which by nature is of universal and perpetual Obligation.
- 1Baxt. on the Sab. p. 77.
Now then that which I call a pure of simple Moral Law or Precept, is that which is a Transcript of God's holy Nature, and therefore commanded, whether written in the Heart of innocent Adam, or in God's Word or Law; and doth universally and perpetually oblige the whole World to conform thereunto.
Now having let you know what is to be understood by a simple Moral Law, I shall show that the Law of the precise Seventh-day Sabbath is not a Law of this nature, i. e. a pure moral Precept universally and perpetually obligatory on all Men: tho I deny not but there is that in the fourth Commandment which is moral in the sense I have given, viz.
Now having let you know what is to be understood by a simple Moral Law, I shall shew that the Law of the precise Seventh-day Sabbath is not a Law of this nature, i. e. a pure moral Precept universally and perpetually obligatory on all Men: tho I deny not but there is that in the fourth Commandment which is moral in the sense I have given, viz.