A47576:535
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.
So elsewhere he says, 1Unto the Jew I became a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the Law, as under the Law, &c. to them that are without the Law, as without the Law; being not without Law to God, but under the Law to Christ; that I might gain them that are without the Law. Three times he here affirms the Gentiles are without the Law.
So elsewhere he says, 1Vnto the Jew I became a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the Law, as under the Law, &c. to them that are without the Law, as without the Law; being not without Law to God, but under the Law to Christ; that I might gain them that are without the Law. Three times he here affirms the Gentiles are without the Law.
Object. He means the Ceremonial Law.
Answ. True, they were without that Law as well as the Decalogue Law: but he cannot here refer to the Ceremonial Law, because it is such a Law as the Gentiles were under to Christ, or as it is in the hand of Christ; which must intend the Moral Law, for no Gentile Believer or Unbeliever was under the Ceremonial Law to Christ, because utterly abolished, but so is not the Moral Law: in which sense we are without the Law to God, but under the Law to, or as it is in the hand of Christ.