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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.
Dr. Twiss, Dr. Owen, and many other learned Men cannot see how it can be said that God sanctified the seventh day, Gen. 2. but that it must refer to Adam in Innocence, as his duty to keep it, and not that God then only by Destination, Decree and Purpose, set it apart for his Church and People to observe in after-times —Now grant it was, as I have last hinted, pray do not they say as much as this comes to in respect of the Gospel-Sabbath? Do not they say, that in the fourth Command (both in the first part, and close of that Precept) God only set apart or sanctified one day in seven, and so conclude the original Sanctification of the first day of the week is comprehended in the fourth Commandment? (which I will not deny) but was not this near 2000 years before he designed his People should observe it, or that it was the absolute Duty of any so to do?
Dr. Twiss, Dr. Owen, and many other learned Men cannot see how it can be said that God sanctified the seventh day, Gen. 2. but that it must refer to Adam in Innocence, as his duty to keep it, and not that God then only by Destination, Decree and Purpose, set it apart for his Church and People to observe in after-times —Now grant it was, as I have last hinted, pray do not they say as much as this comes to in respect of the Gospel-Sabbath? Do not they say, that in the fourth Command (both in the first part, and close of that Precept) God only set apart or sanctified one day in seven, and so conclude the original Sanctification of the first day of the week is comprehended in the fourth Commandment? (which I will not deny) but was not this near 2000 years before he design'd his People should observe it, or that it was the absolute Duty of any so to do?
And as there was an interval from Adam to Moses, of such a state of God's People and things, as rendered them not capable to observe the Seventh-day Sabbath according to the Law of it; so there was an interval of such a state of the Church and things under the legal Covenant, from Moses to Christ, as rendered them not capable to observe the Lord's-day according to the design and purport of God therein, tho that Day was by God's Destination set apart long before.