A47576:425
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.
1. Had the former Covenant been the Covenant of Grace, no doubt but they had abode in that Covenant to this day and for ever: but they are cut off, and now are in no actual Covenant relation with God at all. Sure the Covenant of Grace cannot be utterly broken.
2. Moreover then they should not have needed to look for the Law in two Tables of Stone, because that whole Moral Law should not only be written in the New Testament, the Book of the New Covenant, but in their Hearts also.
3. Now when a Covenant is abolished (as the old Covenant is) will any dare to plead for the sign of it, which obliges them to keep the whole Law? No, plain it is, the sign, i. e. the old Sabbath, is gone with the Covenant it self.
Quest. If the old Sabbath was a sign of that of which you say, what was it a Type or Shadow of?