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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 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.
2. There is something more contained in it, which God by a positive Command required from the Sovereignty of his Will, as that which he sees just and reasonable; namely, that one day in seven be set apart as a day of Rest, and for his Service, and that this should be perpetual to the end of the World. I know ⟨p. 83⟩Divines call this positively moral; and tho I cannot see reason so to call it, yet I grant as much I think as they mean thereby.
2. There is something more contained in it, which God by a positive Command requir'd from the Soveraignty of his Will, as that which he sees just and reasonable; namely, that one day in seven be set apart as a day of Rest, and for his Service, and that this should be perpetual to the end of the World. I know