A47576:447
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.
And saith another Author;1 There is no moral Law of Nature in Scripture, but is it self possible to all in all parts of the World, in regard of the thing commanded: But a natural Sabbath-day, as made to consist of 24 hours, or of a Day and a Night, is absolutely, impossible for some men in some parts of the World to be observed.
- 1Mr. Ironside, p. 133
If it be objected, That this makes equally against the first Day as against the Seventh;
I answer, We do not say the observation of the first Day is a moral Precept, but merely positive. No doubt but the Seventh-day was instituted for Israel, whose Habitation was fixed in the Land of Canaan.
See a late Author on the Sabbath;1 The day of God's Rest, saith he, which is the seventh Day from the Creation, is the same universal Day with all People; but it can't be the same Day of the week with all People. If the Day of God's Rest be Saturday with some, it must needs be Friday or Sunday with others. So likewise the time of Christ's coming to Judgment; if it be, saith he, on the Saturday with some, it will be on Friday or Sunday with others. This he proves, because the Earth is not plain but round. The Jews, saith he, neither did nor could keep the very Seventh-day on which God rested in all places; but as we, according to God's Command, work six days and rest the Seventh, so did they: And as Sunday with Christians was ever the day following six days of labour, so was the Saturday with the Jews. If this be so, it can't be denied that the Seventh-day of God's resting cannot be kept by all, nor do any know they do keep it.