A47576:711
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.
9. This Notion and Principle of theirs seems not only to admit of such Consequences naturally to attend it; but they indeed express themselves very directly on this occasion, even to shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven all that keep not the Seventh-day Sabbath, or at least such who teach men to break it.
See what Mr. Soarsby saith,1 viz. The Decalogue in the New Testament—is abundantly confirmed by many places in the Gospel, which establish the Authority of the Law, and Commandments of God to Christians, both Jews and Gentiles: Our Lord came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it.
- 1New Testament Sab. p. 54, 55.
Some men, saith he, affirm, contrary to both, They who teach and do these Commandments, shall be great in the Kingdom of Heaven; but such as break the least, and teach men so to do, shall be least in it (that is, have no part in it); for unless Christians keep them better than the Scribes, there is no entering into Heaven, Mat. 5. 20. The Summary of the two Tables, are the great Commandments on which hang all the Law and the Prophets. The doing of these, as written and read in the Law, is the way to Eternal Life, Luke 10. 26, 27. Again he saith, It is not the Hearer of the Law that shall be justified amongst the Romans as well as the Jews, &c.