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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.
3. And yet further, which is most of all to be taken notice of; six days, &c. rest one, not enjoining the last of seven (which was instituted before) but only six parts of the time shall be for your selves, the seventh shall be mine: So Gen. 47. 14. you shall have four parts, saith Joseph, the fifth shall be Pharaoh's; let all be divided into five parts, four shall be for your selves, the fifth shall be for the King; not telling them which fifth, but only one of five. Thus Lev. 23. 27. let all be divided into ten, you shall have nine, the tenth shall be the Lord's; not appointing them which tenth, but only one of ten—So here I find not one word for the last of seven.
3. And yet further, which is most of all to be taken notice of; six days, &c. rest one, not injoyning the last of seven (which was instituted before) but only six parts of the time shall be for your selves, the seventh shall be mine: So Gen. 47. 14. you shall have four parts, saith Joseph, the fifth shall be Pharaoh's; let all be divided into five parts, four shall be for your selves, the fifth shall be for the King; not telling them which fifth, but only one of five. Thus Lev. 23. 27. let all be divided into ten, you shall have nine, the tenth shall be the Lord's; not appointing them which tenth, but only one of ten—So here I find not one word for the last of seven.
Moreover, I perceive nothing at all in God's Example for it, nothing there but one day in seven: but when the last day of seven is required of Israel, that refers to the Covenant of Works, their labouring first, doing all they ⟨p. 120⟩had to do, and so to rest, which was a sign (as I have proved) of the Covenant of Works, and a Pledge of their Obligation in their Restipulation with God, according to the Tenor of that conditional Covenant: hence their Sabbath was called a perpetual Covenant,