A47576:434
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. This must be premised, that the Saturday Sabbatarians affirm, that the precise seventh Day is to be kept (saying in this the Morality of the fourth Command lies) which consists of 24 hours, and hath a Morning or Sun-rising, and an Evening or Sun-setting, throughout the whole year; and it was that precise day of the week in which God rested from all his Works.
Now,1 as one observes, in some habitable Regions, and under some Climates, the year is not distinguished by weeks, containing each of them seven days; neither are there several natural days of twenty four hours, consisting of Morning and Evening, by means of the rising and setting of the Sun; as these Instances and Examples following do declare.
- 1Dr. White, p. 177, 178, 179.
Continuance of the Sun above the Horizon.
1. deg. 70. In the Southern part […] Groinland, Finmark, Lapland: and in the North of Russia and Tartaria, one day lasteth from the 10th of May unto July 14. […] five of our days.