A47576:641
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.
Which things let the Reader seriously weigh: for at any time, or in what place soever they could, they preached the Gospel to the Jews; therefore on the Sabbaths, as well in their Synagogues as elsewhere: the Apostles were not wanting in the Office of preaching; for this cause they tarried certain days among the Macedonians, because no fit occasion for preaching the Gospel offered—which the Apostles every where greedily sought after: they preached Christ on the Sabbath days out of the City, 1by a River side, to Women which resorted to public Prayers.
Which things let the Reader seriously weigh: for at any time, or in what place soever they could, they preached the Gospel to the Jews; therefore on the Sabbaths, as well in their Synagogues as elsewhere: the Apostles were not wanting in the Office of preaching; for this cause they tarried certain days among the Macedonians, because no fit occasion for preaching the Gospel offered—which the Apostles every where greedily sought after: they preached Christ on the Sabbath days out of the City, 1by a River side, to Women which resorted to publick Prayers.
So Paul hastened to keep the Feast of Pentecost at Jerusalem, 1only that he might have many Jews (who lived dispersed in divers places of the World) there together, and so preach the Gospel to them.—Chrysostom says,2 What means Paul's hastening to this Feast? it was not for the Feasts, but for the Multitudes—he made haste to preach the Word.