A47576:485
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.
1. God's resting cannot refer to any thing but his ceasing from creating-work; because otherwise he ceaseth not working*; and his Example of resting, as some learned Men observe, is not alleged here to lay an obligation on our Conscience, that that same Day we must observe for ever.
1. God's resting cannot refer to any thing but his ceasing from creating-work; because otherwise he ceaseth not working*; and his Example of resting, as some learned Men observe, is not alledged here to lay an obligation on our Conscience, that that same Day we must observe for ever.
- *My Father, saith our Lord, worketh hitherto, and I work.
2. It seems to relate to what God himself did, rather than any way propounded as an Argument to prove that for which 'tis urged. Take a parallel case, 1 Cor. 11. 23. where we have the Institution of the Lord's-Supper repeated out of the Evangelists, and Christ's Example is related as to the time when, which was not only in the Night, but that particular Night in which he was betrayed. Now this is not recorded as ⟨p. 122⟩a binding Rule on us for our Imitation. That is historically related, and so may this of God's Example in the fourth Commandment. There is one thing more worth noting.
2. It seems to relate to what God himself did, rather than any way propounded as an Argument to prove that for which 'tis urged. Take a parallel case, 1 Cor. 11. 23. where we have the Institution of the Lord's-Supper repeated out of the Evangelists, and Christ's Example is related as to the time when, which was not only in the Night, but that particular Night in which he was betray'd. Now this is not recorded as