A47576:695
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.
3. Is not that dangerous that magnifies the first Creation Work above Redemption,1 or the new Creation Work, when God began to create the new Heavens and new Earth, which refers to the Gospel or new Creation? What saith the Lord, the old Heavens and old Earth shall be remembered no more; that is, in a day kept to that end: for otherwise sure the great Works of the first Creation ought not to be forgot; but the new Creation excelling the old, the new Day must be kept in remembrance thereof, and not the old day.
- 1It magnifies Creation-work above Redemption.
4. Is not that a dangerous Error that tends,1 as the necessary Consequence of it, to eclipse the Glory of Christ, as the only Lord, Head and Lawgiver to his Church, and that gives part of this Honour to Moses?
- 1It eclipses the Glory of Christ.
5. Is not that dangerous that tends to entangle, and bring into Bondage, and under legal Terror, poor weak Christians, as some who have kept the Seventh-day Sabbath have confessed, till God opened their Eyes, they fearing they broke the Sabbath in some way or another? for indeed no Man can perfectly keep it, any more than he can keep the whole Law, as has been hinted. I was always in a trembling state (saith one) so long as I kept it, &c. or to that purpose.
5. Is not that dangerous that tends to intangle, and bring into Bondage, and under legal Terror, poor weak Christians, as some who have kept the Seventh-day Sabbath have confessed, till God open'd their Eyes, they fearing they broke the Sabbath in some way or another? for indeed no Man can perfectly keep it, any more than he can keep the whole Law, as has been hinted. I was always in a trembling state (saith one) so long as I kept it, &c. or to that purpose.