A47576:537
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
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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.
4. Take this Argument:1 That Law which the Gentiles shall not be judged by, they were never under; but the Gentiles shall not be judged by the Law of Moses, therefore they were never under that Law.
- 1The Gentiles shall not be judged by Moses's Law.
For proof of the major Proposition, see what Paul saith:1 For as many as have sinned without Law, shall be judged without Law; and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law. By the first he means the Gentiles, and by the latter the Jews. And from hence the Apostle proceeds to evince, that as the Gentiles showed the Works of the Law written in their Hearts, they should be judged by that Law, but not as that Law was formerly written by Moses in two Tables of Stone, ver. 15.
For proof of the major Proposition, see what Paul saith:1 For as many as have sinned without Law, shall be judged without Law; and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law. By the first he means the Gentiles, and by the latter the Jews. And from hence the Apostle proceeds to evince, that as the Gentiles shew'd the Works of the Law written in their Hearts, they should be judged by that Law, but not as that Law was formerly written by Moses in two Tables of Stone, ver. 15.