A47576:703
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.
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.
Another in a Sermon in Norfolk,1 said, To make a Feast or Wedding-dinner on the Lord's Day, is as great a Sin, as for a Father to take a Knife and cut his own Child's Throat.
- 1See Dr. White on the Sab.
A Sabbatarian also, I am told, did lately say, (having a Child to put out an Apprentice) he knew not any that kept the Sabbath whose Trade he liked; and to place him with one that would cause him to work on that Day, ⟨p. 165⟩was as bad as Adultery or Theft, or to that effect.