A47576:357
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. 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.
For evident it is, that every Day of the […] had one and the same efficient Cause, namely▪ Divine Creation; and all days and things Go• made were very good; and God's sanctifying the seventh Day was but his setting it apart fo•• ⟨p. 87⟩some holy use:1 the Day, saith Dr. Owen, was not capable of any inherent Holiness. God then sanctified, says he, this Day, not that he kept it holy himself, which in no sense the Divine Nature is capable of; nor that he purified it and made it inherently holy, which the nature of the Day is not capable of, nor that he celebrated that which in it self was holy [mark that well] but he set it apart to holy use. So that from hence it follows, if the Morality of the fourth Commandment lay in the precise seventh Day, it wants the first Character of a simple moral Precept. God might have set apart at first any other day if he had pleased, as well as the seventh.