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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.
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?
Moreover, in the Prophet Ezekiel, ch. 20. 10, 11, 12. 'tis said, I gave my Sabbaths to be a Sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctified them.