A47576:611
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.
2. He magnifieth the Law in putting it into the hands of his own Son, as Mediator, to give it forth. Doth not the Dignity and Glory of the Lawgiver add to the Glory of the Law given? Is not Christ a more glorious Person ⟨p. 147⟩than Moses? See Heb. 1. 8, 9, 10. & 2. 2, 3.— This Man was accounted worthy of more Glory than Moses, Heb. 3. 3. But alas! some would have Moses partake of some part of Christ's Glory; he must be their Lawgiver.
3. By making of it, as in Christ's hand, of far greater use to Believers, as I have showed, than ever it was in the hands of Moses, and so to answer God's Design in it.
3. By making of it, as in Christ's hand, of far greater use to Believers, as I have shewed, than ever it was in the hands of Moses, and so to answer God's Design in it.
Let me only add, that all Moses's Law, even the Decalogue, was political, as one observes. God's Law was for the particular political Government of the Jewish Nation, as a typical Church and political Body; and therefore when their Kingdom or Policy ceased, the Law as Political, and their figurative Sabbath could not continue any longer.