A47576:355
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.
Object. If they say, but God sanctified th•• Day.
1. I answer, they will not say that God added any inherent Holiness to that Day.
2. But if they should say he did, then […] would overthrow the Morality of it, i. e. as […] this first property of a simple moral Precept for then it will follow it was made holy […] an Act of God's Arbitrary Will and Pleasure▪ and that it was not so naturally, as that Day was created, or proceeded from the Holiness of God: because, as we have showed, all pu•• moral Precepts as to the matter of them are not good merely because God commands them, […] are in themselves good as resulting from the Holiness of his Nature.
2. But if they should say he did, then 〈…〉 would overthrow the Morality of it, i. e. as 〈…〉 this first property of a simple moral Precept for then it will follow it was made holy 〈…〉 an Act of God's Arbitrary Will and Pleasure▪ and that it was not so naturally, as that Day was created, or proceeded from the Holiness of God: because, as we have shew'd, all pu•• moral Precepts as to the matter of them are not good merely because God commands them, 〈…〉 are in themselves good as resulting from the Holiness of his Nature.