A47576:363
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.
Answ. Of what nature are works of Mercy? I hope not of a higher concern than the discharge of a simple moral Precept. And can one simple moral Precept have more Sanctity in it than another? What, violate the very letter of one moral Law, to do that which is but implied as the necessary consequence of another! nay, break a Command of the first Table, to keep a Command of the second Table! This is a hard case.
Answ. Of what nature are works of Mercy? I hope not of a higher concern than the discharge of a simple moral Precept. And can one simple moral Precept have more Sanctity in it than another? What, violate the very letter of one moral Law, to do that which is but implyed as the necessary consequence of another! nay, break a Command of the first Table, to keep a Command of the second Table! This is a hard case.
Fourthly, That Law or Precept which is equalled to, or compared with Sacrifices, is no ⟨p. 89⟩simple moral Precept: but such is the Law or Precept of the Seventh-day Sabbath; therefore 'tis not a simple moral Precept.
That our Saviour himself doth equal it to, or compare it with Sacrifices, see Mat. 12. 3, 4, 5, 6.