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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.
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.
But let it be considered, that which is signified in the fourth Command, as perpetually obliging us, is, that we observe one day in seven as a day of Rest to the Lord. Let me give you one parallel case more, viz. the Law of Tithes. Now God required the tenth of their Increase: but will any Man say, God intended any one precise tenth? No, begin where you will, the tenth Sheaf or Lamb is the Lord's. So here, God will have one day in seven; but the reason why he fixed on the last of the seven under the old Covenant, I have showed; and shall further show why he chooseth the first of seven in the new Covenant, neither being expressed in the essential and first part of the fourth Command. Had God chose now one in six, or one in nine, he had altered, as one observes, ⟨p. 117⟩the substance of this Command.
But let it be considered, that which is signified in the fourth Command, as perpetually obliging us, is, that we observe one day in seven as a day of Rest to the Lord. Let me give you one parallel case more, viz. the Law of Tithes. Now God required the tenth of their Increase: but will any Man say, God intended any one precise tenth? No, begin where you will, the tenth Sheaf or Lamb is the Lord's. So here, God will have one day in seven; but the reason why he fixed on the last of the seven under the old Covenant, I have shewed; and shall further shew why he chuseth the first of seven in the new Covenant, neither being expressed in the essential and first part of the fourth Command. Had God chose now one in six, or one in nine, he had altered, as one observes,