A47576:553
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.
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.
And he shows it is a Rule of Righteousness to us only, as Christ is our Lawgiver, whose Law is a Law of Liberty: but as he that offended in one point, was guilty of the breach of the whole Law; there he clearly alludes to the Law as in Moses's hand, and as a Covenant of Works.
And he shews it is a Rule of Righteousness to us only, as Christ is our Lawgiver, whose Law is a Law of Liberty: but as he that offended in one point, was guilty of the breach of the whole Law; there he clearly alludes to the Law as in Moses's hand, and as a Covenant of Works.
We are not to do, nor speak, nor live, as the Law in Moses's hands directs, or as he was a Lawgiver; for then we should be under perpetual Bondage: and nothing is more plain, than that Moses's Law, as to the strict observance of its Precepts, brought the Jews into Bondage; 'tis called a Yoke of Bondage, Gal. 5. 1, &c.