A47576:396
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.
Mr. Shepherd speaks much to the same purpose: 1The plural term [Sabbaths] is usually put for the singular, the Sabbath or seventh day,2 now under dispute. Yea, I cannot find any one Text in all the New Testament, where it is applied in the same number to any other day or Sabbath, but the old Seventh-day Sabbath.* Seven or eight times the same word as is here set down in the plural number, is used for the old weekly Sabbath, and not so much as once for any yearly Sabbath: therefore in all reason that precise weekly Sabbath must be here (I will not say included only, but) principally intended.
- 1Sheph. on the Sabb. Part 2.
- 2Thes. 20. p. 204.
- *Mat. 12. 15. Mark 1. 21. cap. 2. 24. cap. 3. 2. Luk. 4. 31. cap. 13. 10. Act. 13. 14.
Even in the Old Testament, wherever New Moons and Sabbaths are coupled together (unless the Phrase be figurative, as in Isa. 66. 23.) the Jews weekly Sabbath is denoted by it, as appears by those Scriptures cited in the Margin†, in most of which their annual Sabbaths are excepted, and distinguished by another name, scil. [Feasts] to which answers the word Holy-days in this place,