A47576:698
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.
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.
6. Is not that a dangerous thing,1 that by the necessary consequence of it leads men to observe other Legal Rites and Ceremonies, as not to eat Swines-flesh, nor wear a Garment of Linen and Woollen, nor mar the corner of their Beards? Nay, some of the chief of them formerly were led to Circumcision, and to worse than that also. I saw a Book published many years ago by two of them, in which they called themselves the Ministers of the Circumcision.
6. Is not that a dangerous thing,1 that by the necessary consequence of it leads men to observe other Legal Rites and Ceremonies, as not to eat Swines-flesh, nor wear a Garment of Linen and Woolen, nor mar the corner of their Beards? Nay, some of the chief of them formerly were led to Circumcision, and to worse than that also. I saw a Book published many years ago by two of them, in which they called themselves the Ministers of the Circumcision.