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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.
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: ⟨p. 116⟩the Phrase is exclusive, 1as one observes, implying thus much, i. e. Thou art not bound to keep the sixth day, or one in six, or the tenth, or one in ten, but the seventh, that is, one in seven, or one in a week. The term seventh is opposed to all other numbers, either ninth, or twentieth, as also to the six working days, which clearly intend such a number, as six in seven; so the seventh, as one in seven.
- 1Mr. Warren, p. 48.
Suppose I give or lend a poor Man seven Pounds, on condition that he improves one Pound for me: now by the seventh is intended one in seven; so doth God here intend one day in seven for a holy Rest to himself.
Tho I deny not the last of seven, or one after six working days was given to the People of Israel; yet it was a sign they should keep the whole Law, and was a shadow of that spiritual and antitypical Rest we have in Christ; and so was upon a special occasion imposed on them, with the greatest strictness and severest Penalty.