A47576:430
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.
My Brethren, what comfort is here to you that enter into this Rest? What Joy may hence spring in your Hearts, who are delivered from ⟨p. 108⟩Bondage and grievous Burdens.1 Stand […] therefore in that Liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and be not again entangled with the yoke of Bondage, lest Christ profit you nothing.
My Brethren, what comfort is here to you that enter into this Rest? What Joy may hence spring in your Hearts, who are delivered from ⟨p. 108⟩Bondage and grievous Burdens.1 Stand 〈…〉 therefore in that Liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and be not again entangled with the yoke of Bondage, lest Christ profit you nothing.
Seventhly, I might prove that the Morality of the fourth Commandment consists not in the precise Seventh-day Sabbath, even from that Memorandum that is fixed in the beginning of the Command, viz. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. Now tho one day in seven be by a positive Law made perpetually obligatory in the fourth Command, yet that is not, as so considered, a simple moral Precept, much less not the precise seventh Day; and this because it is brought in with Remember, denoting clearly the difference between this Command as to any particular day, and that which is purely moral in this Command: for that which is connatural to us, or an inherent Law of Nature, is so engraven in our Hearts, that enlightened Persons especially are not very subject to forget it. But a mere positive Precept, which is not so written in our Hearts by Nature, we are too ready to forget; therefore God (as I conceive) to this Precept added this, Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. 'Tis not said, Remember ye have no Gods but me; or remember you do not take the Name of the Lord in vain; or, remember you do not disobey your Father and Mother; or that you do not steal, commit Adultery, Murder, &c. no such charge is given there; why so? because these Precepts being simply moral, are written in our Hearts. The word remember (as one notes) hath not primarily any reference either to the Works of God, or to the finishing his Works, but to God's destination of the Day to be in time to