A47576:352
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 to proceed: The precise Seventh-day Sabbath cannot be a simple moral Precept, and therefore in that lies not the Morality of the fourth Commandment. In order to prove this, •et me lay down this Proposition, viz. If the ⟨p. 86⟩Law of the observation of the precise seventh Day hath not in it one Character of a Law that is simply moral; then the Morality of the fourth Commandment doth not consist in the observation of that precise Day: but that it has not one Character of such a Law, I shall endeavour to prove,
Now to proceed: The precise Seventh-day Sabbath cannot be a simple moral Precept, and therefore in that lies not the Morality of the •ourth Commandment. In order to prove this, •et me lay down this Proposition, viz. If the ⟨p. 86⟩Law of the observation of the precise seventh Day hath not in it one Character of a Law that is simply moral; then the Morality of the fourth Commandment doth not confist in the observation of that precise Day: but that it has not one Characte• of such a Law, I shall endeavour to prove,