A47576:702
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.
7. Is not that Error dangerous,1 and of an evil Nature, the necessary Consequence whereof renders all that keep not that precise Seventh-day as the Sabbath (nor can be convinced 'tis their Duty to observe it) to be guilty of Immorality, i. e. in breaking a moral Precept in the very Letter of it, nay one of the Precepts of the first Table? For it must be thus, if the morality of the fourth Commandment lies in the observation of the precise Seventh-day Sabbath; and it must be as great an Evil to violate it, as 'tis to have another God, or to bow down to a graven Image, or to swear or profane the holy Name of God, or commit actual Adultery, Murder, &c. and thus their Doctrine renders all true Christians to be guilty of a most gross Immorality, who do not observe the precise Seventh-day.
7. Is not that Error dangerous,1 and of an evil Nature, the necessary Consequence whereof renders all that keep not that precise Seventh-day as the Sabbath (nor can be convinced 'tis their Duty to observe it) to be guilty of Immorality, i. e. in breaking a moral Precept in the very Letter of it, nay one of the Precepts of the first Table? For it must be thus, if the morality of the fourth Commandment lies in the observation of the precise Seventh-day Sabbath; and it must be as great an Evil to violate it, as 'tis to have another God, or to bow down to a graven Image, or to swear or profane the holy Name of God, or commit actual Adultery, Murder, &c. and thus their Doctrin renders all true Christians to be guilty of a most gross Immorality, who do not observe the precise Seventh-day.
- 1It renders all that keep it not, guilty of horrid Immorality.
Nay, the like Consequences attend their Notion, who through ignorance and an over-heated Zeal, have also asserted the same Morality to consist in the observance of the first Day of the Week; as is evident by what some Ministers in their Parish-Churches did formerly affirm: One in Oxfordshire said, That to do any servile Work on the Lord's Day, is as great a Sin as to kill a Man.