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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.
2. 'Tis as if our Lord should have said, you magnify the Sabbath as if that was one of the greatest Commandments, and the main end of Man's Creation; but you must know the Sabbath was made for Man, and not Man for the Sabbath, as were all legal Rites and Ceremonies. And if it be thus, I that am the Messiah, am by my Office Lord of the Sabbath; and I can and will abrogate it, and appoint another day in its room.
Certainly Man was made to discharge all pure moral Precepts, they being originally stamped on his Heart; as Christ, who was made under the Law, was ordained to keep the Law for us, and not the Law made for him. Man was made in the Image of God, and under a holy Law, and Covenant of perfect Obedience, to serve his Creator; and by the observation of that holy Law written in his Heart, as the Law of his very Creation, he bore the Image of God in the World,1 serving him in Righteousness and Holiness to the Glory of his Name, ⟨p. 114⟩and for this he was made; yet Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for him, i. e. for his good, in respect to his Body and Soul: (1.) As to his outward Rest, &c. (2.) As a help to discharge all Duties of instituted Worship the better for the good of his Soul: (3.) And chiefly to point out or shadow forth to him the true Rest by Jesus Christ; and so that typical Sabbath was to remain no longer than till that true Rest was come and finally established, for then it could be of no further use to Man, for which end it was chiefly appointed for him.
Certainly Man was made to discharge all pure moral Precepts, they being originally stampt on his Heart; as Christ, who was made under the Law, was ordain'd to keep the Law for us, and not the Law made for him. Man was made in the Image of God, and under a holy Law, and Covenant of perfect Obedience, to serve his Creator; and by the observation of that holy Law written in his Heart, as the Law of his very Creation, he bore the Image of God in the World,1