A47576:407
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.
Now if this did not tend to Bondage, and so was a Law against them, and contrary to them, nothing could; but now in Christ, who hath kept the Law perfectly for us, or has done ⟨p. 102⟩all we were to do, and suffer, we come to have true spiritual Rest and Peace. And,
Our Lord, no doubt, alludes to this, Ma•. 11. 28, 29. Come to me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Brethren, mind those two words, labour and heavy laden. On the Jewish Sabbath no servile labour was to be done, nor any burdens to be born, signifying that Believers in Christ cease from labouring for Life, and must not bear any burden of Sin, either in respect of the guilt or fear of the punishment; Christ having done all, and born the burden of all our sins in his own Body on the Tree; so that we must cast our Burden on the Lord, and he will sustain us.
And so we begin our Sabbath after all our Works are done, and Burdens born by our dear Lord, and blessed Surety, on the first Day of the Week, as he has directed us; and from hence we work not for Life and Rest, but from Life, Rest and Peace.