A47576:341
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. 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 ⟨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.
3. God did also command the whole House of Israel under their Legal and Typical Church-state, to observe the seventh, or last day of the week in remembrance of his finishing the Works of the first Creation.