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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.
But before I proceed, I might give you the Observations of divers Expositors on the order and manner of the Expressions in the fourth Commandment: As first, the essential part, Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy; not the seventh day. True, in the next words God declared that the seventh Day should be the Jews Sabbath, whom he took into a Legal and Typical Covenant, and Church-state, to be his own People: The seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; not thy God in Christ upon the terms of the new Covenant; no, no, but thy God in a legal, and external Covenant. And so their Sabbath was given to them upon the terms of the Law of Creation, or the Covenant of Works, which is a legal, relative, and external Covenant God entered into with the whole House of Israel, or Nation of the Jews, even them and all their natural Seed as such.
But before I proceed, I might give you the Observations of divers Expositors on the order and manner of the Expressions in the fourth Commandment: As first, the essential part, Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy; not the seventh day. True, in the next words God declar'd that the seventh Day should be the Jews Sabbath, whom he took into a Legal and Typical Covenant, and Church-state, to be his own People: The seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; not thy God in Christ upon the terms of the new Covenant; no, no, but thy God in a legal, and external Covenant. And so their Sabbath was given to them upon the terms of the Law of Creation, or the Covenant of Works, which is a legal, relative, and external Covenant God enter'd into with the whole House of Israel, or Nation of the Jews, even them and all their natural Seed as such.
My Brethren, upon this foot of account was the Seventh-day Sabbath founded; not in Christ, or on a new Covenant bottom; nor given to ⟨p. 84⟩New-Covenant Children as such; but it wa• bottomed upon the Covenant of Works, and only given to that People whom God brought out of the Land of Egypt, and redeemed from Egyptian Bondage. And when he enters into that Covenant with them, he positively says therefore he gave them his Sabbaths,