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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.
Answ. The Woman was made for Man also, but must every man have a Wife therefore? God ne'er designed that for such to whom he hath given the Gift to live without marrying. So neither were all Men to have this Sabbath; no, none but they to whom it was given: tho it was made for Man, yet not for every Man in the World, but only for the whole House of Israel, and the proselyted Stranger within their Gate, as I shall show in the next place.
Answ. The Woman was made for Man also, but must every man have a Wife therefore? God ne'r design'd that for such to whom he hath given the Gift to live without marrying. So neither were all Men to have this Sabbath; no, none but they to whom it was given: tho it was made for Man, yet not for every Man in the World, but only for the whole House of Israel, and the proselyted Stranger within their Gate, as I shall shew in the next place.
Tenthly, The pure Morality of the fourth Command consists not in the observation of the precise Seventh-day Sabbath, 1because it lies not in one day in seven, but in a sufficient time for Rest, and the Worship of God; tho I do assert, and steadfastly believe, that by a positive Precept contained in the fourth Commandment, one day in seven God will have observed to the end of the World, which I think is the sum […] what the Learned mean by a Law positive •• ral: Not that precise day; for mind the words Exod. 20. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. In this Clause it does not directly point ⟨p. 115⟩at one peculiar day more than another: the Light of Nature requires a time, and God positively lays claim to a seventh day, or one day in seven, perpetually to be observed as a day of Rest and solemn Worship. And tho the last of seven was that precise Day enjoined under the old Covenant upon the People of Israel, yet that Sabbath was not to continue longer than till the Antitype came; and it being a sign and shadow, it is, as I have proved, done away.