A47576:348
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 the precise Seventh-day Sabbath given to Israel. I shall prove is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, but a shadow of what was to come, and principally refers to Christ, and to that spiritual Rest Believers enter into when they first close with him.
I know Divines call one Day in seven a moral positive, as I just now told you: by moral they […], as I conceive, that which ought perpetually to be observed; but that Day which God from the Sovereignty of his Will commanded the Jews, was 'tis plain the seventh: and when ⟨p. 85⟩Christ came, who has given us the true Rest, and rose from the dead, he appointed, as I shall hereafter prove, the first Day of seven upon the account of his finishing his Work, i. e. the work of Redemption, as God commanded the Israelites to keep the seventh-day, because on it he •ested when he had finished his Work, viz. •hat of Creation.
I know Divines call one Day in seven a moral positive, as I just now told you: by moral they 〈…〉, as I conceive, that which ought perpe••ally to be observed; but that Day which God from the Soveraignty of his Will commanded the Jews, was 'tis plain the seventh: and when ⟨p. 85⟩Christ came, who has given us the true Rest, and rose from the dead, he appointed, as I shall hereafter prove, the first Day of seven upon the account of his finishing his Work, i. e. the work of Redemption, as God commanded the Israe••tes to keep the seventh-day, because on it he •ested when he had finished his Work, viz. •hat of Creation.