A47576:342
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.
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.
3. God did also command the whole House of Israel under their Legal and Typical Church-•tate, to observe the seventh, or last day of the week in remembrance of his finishing the Works of the first Creation.
And now that the precise seventh Day was a shadow or a sign, I have and shall prove; and […] was only a Law to the Israelites during that Typical Dispensation, and their Political Church-state, which Christ nailed to his Cross, and uried with all other Shadows and Legal Ceremonies.