A47576:724
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.
To which let me add, How can they have Communion with us, if they consider and observe the Consequences of their Principle? Are not we guilty of absolute Immorality, i. e. the literal breach of one Precept of the first Table? Can they, or we have Communion with such as bow down to a graven Image, or profane the holy Name of God, or are guilty of Murder, &c.?
And thus you may see what the natural and genuine Consequences of this Principle are, and that it not only tends to lay the Generation of the Righteous under the guilt of the breach of a moral Precept, and renders them guilty in their sense of the breach of the whole Law, but hath other bad Consequents attending it also.
And this may tend to convince all (that consider of what I say) that the Morality of the fourth Commandment doth not consist in that precise Seventh-day Sabbath, and discovers how blind these Men are.
Brethren, tho I believe many who keep this Day, and affirm it is a moral Precept, are very pious and good Christians,1