A47576:481
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.
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.
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 acknowledg'd 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 observ'd upon that reason.
But when Christ God-man came, and also had finished the Work of Redemption, and ceased from his Work, as God did from his; there is the same moral reason why the Day in which he rested from redeeming, i.e. the first day of seven, should be our day of Rest, because this is a far greater Work than that of Creation, as shall be made plain and clear hereafter. For we in Gospel-days (as foretold) shall not remember the old Heavens and the old Earth any more, the new carrying away the Glory of that; i.e. remember them no more by the observation of that old seventh day. To this purpose Mr. B. of Dorchester.
Now I say God's Example under the Covenant of Works in working six days, and then resting, is no ways obligatory on us, tho it was on Israel under the same old Covenant. But we must ground and bottom our Observation of one Day in seven upon Christ's ceasing and ⟨p. 121⟩