A47576:339
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.
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.
1. A time,1 a sufficient time to be set apart from all worldly Business, for Rest, and the Worship of God; and this is all I can find simply moral in the fourth Commandment.
- 1Three things contain'd in the fourth Commandment.