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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
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2. We never denied, but readily grant that all believing Gentiles are obliged to keep the whole moral Law, or all simple moral Precepts, as they are in the hand of our Lord, that one Lawgiver, of which this Apostle speaks: but I have proved that the precise Seventh-day Sabbath is not a simple moral Precept, nor any part of the Morality of the fourth Commandment, and therefore not intended here. Therefore it followeth, that Man may fulfil the Royal Law according to the Scripture, and yet not observe the Seventh-day Sabbath.
2. We never deny'd, but readily grant that all believing Gentiles are oblig'd to keep the whole moral Law, or all simple moral Precepts, as they are in the hand of our Lord, that one Lawgiver, of which this Apostle speaks: but I have proved that the precise Seventh-day Sabbath is not a simple moral Precept, nor any part of the Morality of the fourth Commandment, and therefore not intended here. Therefore it followeth, that Man may fulfil the Royal Law according to the Scripture, and yet not observe the Seventh-day Sabbath.
3. The Apostle James clears the matter himself: So speak and so do, as they that shall be judged by the Law of Liberty, ver. 12.
He can refer in these words to no Law but that of Christ, or rather Christ's Gospel; or to the Law as in his hands, who hath fulfilled the whole Law for us by his own perfect Obedience: and hence we are delivered from the Law as in the hand of Moses; because as so considered it was not a Law of Liberty, but a Law of Bondage, or that which gendered to Bondage.
He can refer in these words to no Law but that of Christ, or rather Christ's Gospel; or to the Law as in his hands, who hath fulfilled the whole Law for us by his own perfect Obedience: and hence we are delivered from the Law as in the hand of Moses; because as so considered it was not a Law of Liberty, but a Law of Bondage, or that which gender'd to Bondage.