A47576:480
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.
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, 1and with that Covenant it is gone for ever.
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 Pledg of their Obligation in their Restipulation with God, according to the Tenour of that conditional Covenant: hence their Sabbath was called a perpetual Covenant, 1and with that Covenant it is gone for ever.
- 1Exod. 31.
Yet one day in seven, as a day of Rest and solemn Worship, is still to be the Lord's by virtue of the fourth Command: and tho God's Example of resting is mentioned, yet it must be acknowledged to relate to some special end and purpose, which may not only refer to Man's good, but to God's ceasing from the Work of Creation for ever; which being the first and greatest Work then done, the day of his finishing his Work was to be observed upon that reason.