A47576:461
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.
Dr. Owen, 1speaking of the Seventh-day Sabbath, saith, That Day was not directly nor absolutely required in the Decalogue, but consequentially, only by way of appropriation to the Mosaical Economy, whereunto it was then annexed. The Command is to observe the Sabbath-day; God blessed the Sabbath-day. And the mention of the seventh Day in the body of the Command fixes the number of the Days in whose Revolution a Sabbatical Rest returns, but determines not an everlasting order in them, seeing the order relating to the old Creation is inconsistent with the Law, Reason, and Worship of the new. And if the seventh Day, and the Sabbath, as some pretend, are the same, the sense of the Command in the enforcing part of it is, but the seventh Day is the seventh Day of the Lord thy God, which is none at all.
Dr. Owen, 1speaking of the Seventh-day Sabbath, saith, That Day was not directly nor absolutely required in the Decalogue, but consequentially, only by way of appropriation to the Mosaical Oeconomy, whereunto it was then annexed. The Command is to observe the Sabbath-day; God blessed the Sabbath-day. And the mention of the seventh Day in the body of the Command fixes the number of the Days in whose Revolution a Sabbatical Rest returns, but determines not an everlasting order in them, seeing the order relating to the old Creation is inconsistent with the Law, Reason, and Worship of the new. And if the seventh Day, and the Sabbath, as some pretend, are the same, the sense of the Command in the inforcing part of it is, but the seventh Day is the seventh Day of the Lord thy God, which is none at all.
- 1Pag. 301.
So, as he and all learned Men generally say, 'tis not the precise seventh Day, but one day in seven, which is perpetually obligatory in the fourth Commandment. Mind the words again, wherein the substance, or the essential part of this Command is expressed: Six days shalt thou labour, but a seventh is a Sabbath; 'tis not in the original [the seventh] but seventh, denoting not a monthly or yearly, but a weekly Sabbath: