A47576:452
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.
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⟩guide, govern, perfect, quicken, raise, and glorify her, Eph. 1. 20, 21, 22. and another to be Lord of a Law or Constitution, to moderate, dispense with, order, alter and abolish it: for in what other Construction can any one be said to be Lord of a Law?
Obj. Christ can't be said to refer to this, because he had not then abrogated the Sabbath.
Answ. 1. I have showed that spiritual Rest (signified by the seventh-day's Rest) was given to all them that believed in Christ; so that the Antitype being come, the Type was a flying away, and was in a dying state at that very time; tho all typical Ordinances were not utterly abolished till his Death and Resurrection.