A47576:451
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.
Ninthly, 1The morality of the fourth Commandment consists not in the precise Seventh-day Sabbath, because of Christ's Lordship over it as Mediator. That Commandment over which Christ was absolute Lord, as the Son of Man, cannot be moral: for a moral Precept is part of God's Eternal Law,2 over which the Son of Man can have no power, saith a Learned Author, being made under the Law. But Christ as the Son of Man,3 was Lord of the Sabbath,4 as himself twice has told us.
- 1Christ Lord of the Sabbath, can dispose of it as he pleases.
- 2Ironside, p. 53, 54.
- 3Mat. 12. 8.
- 4Mark 2. 27.
Object. So it is said, he is Lord of the dead and living.
Answ. This, saith our Author, is to play with the ambiguity of the words. 'Tis one thing for Christ to be Lord of the Church, to ⟨p. 113⟩