The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts

But none sure will say, Christ as the Son of Man, or as Mediator, is Lord of any pure moral Precept; so that he can give liberty to men to worship other Gods, or to make graven Images and bow down to them, or take God's holy Name in vain, or commit Murder, Adultery, or steal, &c. No, no, it would be Blasphemy with a witness to say this; such is the vast difference between Laws that result from the nature of God, and mere positives, shadowy and Ceremonial Precepts, which were given for a time as an Act of God's Prerogative and good Pleasure, and when the Antitype is come, were to cease for ever.

Obj. But what say some? If Christ brake the Seventh-day Sabbath, he sinned: thus a rash Person lately expressed himself.

Obj. But what say some? If Christ brake the Seventh-day Sabbath, he sinned: thus a rash Person lately exprest himself.

Ans. 1. Because our Lord came not to destroy the Law, &c. but to fulfil it, and was obliged exactly to keep the whole moral Law of God (that it might be imputed to us with his passive Obedience, to justify us before God, as his full and perfect Righteousness) that therefore he was obliged to conform to all Typical and Ceremonial Laws, of which he himself was the Antitype, none I think ever asserted; he had another way to fulfil all such Laws, than by his actual Obedience to them. And,