A47576:532
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.
2. Upon this very account Paul shows that the Jews had the advantage of all other People; 1What advantage then hath the Jew? &c. Much every way, chiefly because to them were committed the Oracles of God. Now Stephen shows by the Oracles of God are meant the ⟨p. 132⟩Ten words,2 who told the Jews, Their Fathers received on Mount Sinai the lively Oracles, to deliver them, saith he, to us, i. e. us Jews.
2. Upon this very account Paul shews that the Jews had the advantage of all other People; 1What advantage then hath the Jew? &c. Much every way, chiefly because to them were committed the Oracles of God. Now Stephen shews by the Oracles of God are meant the ⟨p. 132⟩Ten words,2 who told the Jews, Their Fathers received on Mount Sinai the lively Oracles, to deliver them, saith he, to us, i. e. us Jews.
Now I argue thus: If the Gentiles had the same lively Oracles, or Oracles of God given to them, then in this the Jews had not the advantage above the Gentiles. He doth not speak of the Advantage the Jews had as to the clearest Revelation of those Oracles to them, above the Gentiles, but of the giving of them to the Jews and not to the Gentiles.