A47576:598
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.
Object. But do not most say, that the Decalogue written in Stone is the Moral Law, and of perpetual Obligation?
Answ. Yes; for by the word [Moral] they mean [Natural], and so take Moral not in the large sense, as signifying a Law de moribus, as all Laws are whatsoever; but in a narrower sense, as signifying that which by nature is of universal and perpetual Obligation. So that they mean, not that it is perpetual as it is Moses's Law, and written in Stone formally, but as it is that which is natural: And they mean, that materially the Decalogue containeth the same Law which is the Law of Nature; and therefore it is materially in force still.
But they except still certain Points and Circumstances in it, as the prefatory Reason, I am the Lord your God that brought you out of the Land of Egypt, and especially this of the Seventh-day Sabbath.
Quest. How far then are we bound to keep the Law?