A47576:413
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. I answer, but remotely, if at all, it was a Sign of either of them; for they are laid down as the Reasons why God gave Israel their Sabbath, and not as a Sign of those things. But let it now be well considered, that God never since the Fall entered into a Covenant with any People, but he gave a Sign or Token of it.
1. When he entered into a Covenant with Noah (and all the World in him) that he would no more destroy the World by Water, he gave a Sign, viz. a Rainbow: this was a Covenant of external Favour, without any Restipulation.
2. When God entered into Covenant with Abraham, and with all his fleshly Seed as such, he gave them a Sign of that Covenant, namely Circumcision: this is that which we call the Covenant of Peculiarity; tho we deny not but God entered into a Spiritual or Gospel-Covenant with Abraham, and with all his true spiritual Seed also, which contained only a free promise of Grace in Christ: but that Covenant with his natural Seed as such, is called the Covenant of Circumcision, 1because Circumcision was the Sign thereof. Moreover, they that can't see a twofold Covenant was made with Abraham, are strangely blinded.
- 1Acts 7.