A47576:521
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.
5. Besides (as one observes) there were Ceremonies belonging to the Sabbath, that were essential to the right keeping of it, which were not enjoined on the Gentiles, except Proselytes. That Law given to all People, must have the same Services, Rites and Ceremonies essentially annexed to it, given to them also; but those Services, Rites, and Ceremonies, were given to none but the Jews. Otherwise, as he observes, there would be two sorts of Worship acceptable to God; and then it would follow also that God was more severe to Israel than to others, by imposing more hard and costly Services on them than on the Gentiles.
6. Take here what Mr. Bunyan hath said: Good Nehemiah threatened the Gentiles that were Merchants for lying then about the Walls of the City, for that by that means they were a Temptation to the Jews to break their Sabbath; yet he still charges the ⟨p. 130⟩breach thereof upon his own People, Nehem. 13. 16, 17, &c.
6. Take here what Mr. Bunyan hath said: Good Nehemiah threatned the Gentiles that were Merchants for lying then about the Walls of the City, for that by that means they were a Temptation to the Jews to break their Sabbath; yet he still charges the ⟨p. 130⟩breach thereof upon his own People, Nehem. 13. 16, 17, &c.
Can it be imagined, had the Gentiles been concerned by a Divine Law to keep this Sabbath, that so holy and good a Man as Nehemiah would let them escape without a rebuke for so notorious a Transgression?