A47576:558
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.
Thirdly, The third Argument to prove it is not the Duty of Gentile Believers to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath from the fourth Commandment in the Decalogue, is, Because that Law, as there written and given, is taken out of the hand of Moses as a Lawgiver, as well as ⟨p. 137⟩it was a Covenant of Works, and put into the hand of Christ as Mediator.
My Brethren,1 could our Adversaries prove that the Law on Mount Sinai was given to all the World, and so to believing Gentiles (which I have shown it was not) yet this would not in the least do their business: for the believing Jews are now no longer under the Law, no not as the moral Law was given by Moses as a Rule of Life, any more than they are not under it as a Covenant of Works.
My Brethren,1 could our Adversaries prove that the Law on Mount Sinai was given to all the World, and so to believing Gentiles (which I have shewn it was not) yet this would not in the least do their business: for the believing Jews are now no longer under the Law, no not as the moral Law was given by Moses as a Rule of Life, any more than they are not under it as a Covenant of Works.
- 1The moral Law taken out of the hand of Moses as a Lawgiver, and put into the hand of Christ as Mediator.
1. Indeed my Work is partly done in this respect already, by what I have said in opening the plain sense of the Apostle James in that place just now mentioned.