A47576:755
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.
Now that Paul, who was the Minister and great Apostle of the Gentiles, did teach the Churches to observe the first day of the week, by assembling together to discharge the Duties of Religious Worship, is evident.
Nor can it be once supposed, since he endeavoured to take the Churches off from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath (as I have proved) that he should not direct them, or discover to them what day of the week Christ had commanded his People to observe in the time of the Gospel: they knowing especially that one day in seven the Lord declared in the fourth Commandment he would have perpetually sequestered to his Service, as also the reasonableness or equitableness thereof.
Nor can it be once supposed, since he endeavour'd to take the Churches off from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath (as I have proved) that he should not direct them, or discover to them what day of the week Christ had commanded his People to observe in the time of the Gospel: they knowing especially that one day in seven the Lord declared in the fourth Commandment he would have perpetually sequestred to his Service, as also the reasonableness or equitableness thereof.
Therefore, my Brethren, as I have endeavoured to answer all the pretended Arguments brought to prove that we ought to observe the old Jewish Sabbath, the simple Morality of the fourth Commandment, they say, consisting in the observation of that precise day: So I shall now, God assisting, attempt to prove that we ⟨p. 178⟩are obliged to observe the first day of the week as a day of Rest, and solemn Worship to God; while I esteem such as are for no special or particular day to be observed by Divine Authority both in private Families and in Church Assemblies, to be strangely left of God, and to be no friends to our sacred Religion, but such as open a door to great Licentiousness and Profaneness.