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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.
2. They turned to Judaism in respect of the observation of Circumcision and Jewish days: How turn ye again to weak and beggarly Elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in Bondage? chap. 4. vers. 9. Ye having (as if he should say) attained to the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, the glorious Mediator, Sovereign Lord, and only Lawgiver of his Church, it is strange you should turn again to Moses, and so eclipse the Glory of Christ; this doth not comport with your former knowledge, and of that Revelation you have had of the Truth as it is in Jesus.
2. They turned to Judaism in respect of the observation of Circumcision and Jewish days: How turn ye again to weak and beggarly Elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in Bondage? chap. 4. vers. 9. Ye having (as if he should say) attained to the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, the glorious Mediator, Soveraign Lord, and only Lawgiver of his Church, it is strange you should turn again to Moses, and so eclipse the Glory of Christ; this doth not comport with your former knowledg, and of that Revelation you have had of the Truth as it is in Jesus.
By Beggarly Elements he doth not only mean Circumcision, but also observation of Jewish Days: Ye observe Days, &c. he doth not mean the Gospel, or New Testament days of Worship, but Jewish days; he could not be afraid of them if they had only observed the first day of the Week, because he had given charge to these Churches as well as others, religiously to keep it, as appears 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2, 3. but they observed the Jewish Sabbath, and other Old Testament days; nay, and they laid such stress upon them, as to make the observation of them necessary to eternal Life, as some do now, by affirming the keeping of the Seventh-day, or old Jewish Sabbath, is a Moral Duty, being of the same nature with the first Commandment, viz. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, or any other simple Moral Precept. True, such at Rome as did esteem some other day besides the first Day of the Week, and looked upon it as an indifferent thing, were not reproved, as