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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.
What is now become of Mr. Tillam's Flourish, who insults over such as call the Seventh-day Sabbath a sign?
The Sabbath is indeed (saith he) a sign of good things formerly produced,1 as the Creation, or else of good things at present enjoyed, as God's sanctifying Grace; but never was set up for a sign of good things to come, like the Ceremonial Sabbaths. I might here retort the vaunting Language of the Preacher of Peter's (of cutting off Goliath's Head with his own Sword) for if the Morality of the Sabbath cease, by being a sign to the Jews in their Generations, upon the same account must the whole Law cease to be moral, since God's Spirit hath set it also for a sign.
The Sabbath is indeed (saith he) a sign of good things formerly produced,1 as the Creation, or else of good things at present enjoy'd, as God's sanctifying Grace; but never was set up for a sign of good things to come, like the Ceremonial Sabbaths. I might here retort the vaunting Language of the Preacher of Peter's (of cutting off Goliah's Head with his own Sword) for if the Morality of the Sabbath cease, by being a sign to the Jews in their Generations, upon the same account must the whole Law cease to be moral, since God's Spirit hath set it also for a sign.
- 1Tillam on the Sabb. p. 18.
Answ. 1. Tho the Marks of true Grace are called Signs, yet there is a great difference between them, and the Signs of Covenants. Miracles also are called Signs; and God's People ⟨p. 106⟩