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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.
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.
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 call'd a Yoke of Bondage, Gal. 5. 1, &c.
But so speak, and so do, as they who shall be judged by the Law of Liberty, that is, the Gospel; for not by the Law as in Moses's hand, but by the Gospel we shall be judged at the last day, who live only under that Ministration.
And from hence let such as keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, take heed lest they are brought into Bondage, by obliging themselves to observe the whole Law; since I have proved it was appointed as a sign or pledge of the Covenant of Works, binding them to universal and perfect Obedience, who were on their Sabbath-day not to think their own Thoughts, nor speak their own Words, but to make the Law of God their delight so as not to sin; which none ever did, or could do, save Jesus Christ, who thus kept the Sabbath, even as long as he lived for us on the Earth, that we might enter into his Rest, or into the Anti••pical Sabbath.
And from hence let such as keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, take heed lest they are brought into Bondage, by obliging themselves to observe the whole Law; since I have prov'd it was appointed as a sign or pledg of the Covenant of Works, binding them to universal and perfect Obedience, who were on their Sabbath-day not to think their own Thoughts, nor speak their own Words, but to make the Law of God their delight so as not to sin; which none ever did, or could do, save Jesus Christ, who thus kept the Sabbath, even as long as he liv'd for us on the Earth, that we might enter into his Rest, or into the Antipical Sabbath.