A47576:608
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.
So that Christ came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it, and also to make it of great use to all that receive the Spirit of Christ: which Spirit is a Spirit of burning, before it is a Spirit of Consolation; or a Spirit of Bondage, before it is the Spirit of Adoption, and so a Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.1
So that Christ came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it, and also to make it of great use to all that receive the Spirit of Christ: which Spirit is a Spirit of burning, before it is a Spirit of Consolation; or a Spirit of Bo•dage, before it is the Spirit of Adoption, and so a Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.1
Thus we do not make void the Law through Faith, but establish it. God in Christ hath magnified the Law, and made it honourable, and that three ways.
1. In sending his own Son in our Nature to keep it perfectly, and to die for our breach thereof; Christ was made under the Law to this very end. O how doth it magnify the Law, to see Godman thus conform to it, and die to bear the Penalty thereof for us?