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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.
The Reason he asserts this, was to prove the Gentiles were never obliged to observe their Sabbath. Let me add what Mr. Baxter hath wrote:1 He saith, That the Fourth Commandment of Moses bindeth us not to the Seventh-day Sabbath, because that Moses's Law never bound any but the Jews, and those Proselytes that made themselves Inhabitants of their Land, or voluntarily subjected themselves to ⟨p. 131⟩their Policy. For Moses was Ruler of none but the Jews, nor a Legislator or deputed Officer from God to any other Nation. The Decalogue was but part of the Jewish Law, if you consider it not as written in Nature, but in Tables of Stone; and the Jewish Law was given as a Law to no other People but to them. It was a national Law, as they were a peculiar People and holy Nation; so that even in Moses's days it bound no other Nations of the World; therefore it needed no abrogation to the Gentiles, but a declaration that it did not bind them.
- 1Baxter on the Sabb. p. 74.
7. To close with what we find in the Old Testament about this: 'Tis worthy our noting, that God told the Israelites that those Seven Nations of Canaan, whom they should drive out,1 were defiled with all those Sins and Abominations that he commanded them to abstain from; i. e. they had violated all natural or simple moral Precepts. But God never charged them with the Sin of breaking the Jews Sabbath: So that from thence I infer the Decalogue was not given to them, and so not the Sabbath.
- 1This is a full Answ. to Mr. Soarsby, who has filled many Pages of his Book to prove the Decalogue Law was given to all the World.