A47576:697
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.
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.
Brethren, it is not to be thought what Bondage it brought the zealous Jews under, they not knowing when they had answered the strict observance of that day; and if they brake it, they must die without Mercy, as the poor Man that gathered Sticks on that day: they were not to speak their own words, &c. How should they know when they did this?1 Nay live, and sin not: They would not, Mr. Trap saith, spit, nor ease themselves on that day, which is hard to believe: tho some were superstitiously zealous, 'tis true; yet others who were piously zealous, by means of the strictness of the Precept, continually were in fear and bondage: And sad it is for any to be entangled again thereby.
- 1On Mat. 12. 2. p. 361.