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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.
2. He mistakes greatly when he affirms, that God saith the Sabbath was a sign of his sanctifying the whole House of Israel with his sanctifying Grace. Did God so sanctify them, or were they spiritually sanctified? No, no, it signified that God took the whole Nation of Israel into an external, federal, and legal Relation to himself, or set them apart as so considered from all People in the World, to be his own People; and in that Covenant-relation he was married to them, as he says elsewhere.
3. To sanctify, 1often in the Old Testament only refers to God's setting apart a Thing, a Person, &c. for himself, or to some holy legal Use or Service. Thus the seventh Day was sanctified, and the Priests, and Vessels of the Sanctuary, &c. were sanctified. And their Sabbath was a sign that they became God's People, in that legal and typical Covenant, or upon the terms of the Covenant of Works; they promising that all the Lord commanded them they would do,2 which confirms what we said before.
- 1What is meant by God's sanctifying the whole Nation of Israel.
- 2Exod. 24. 2, 3.
4. Let none suppose that God took the whole House of Israel into a special Relation with himself, according to the tenor of the new Covenant, or Covenant of Grace; or that that Covenant, Exod. 20