A47576:758
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.
If therefore any should say, that there is no one precise day in seven of Divine Authority under the Gospel-Dispensation, but that the Church may appoint what day she pleaseth: I reply.
1. What force or authority can such a human Precept have upon any Man's Conscience,1 i. e. the observance of one day in every week free from all worldly Business, if God requires it not?
- 1To appoint a weekly day of Worship is not in the power of the Church, &c.
2. Then also it would follow, that God doth admit vile Man to share, or partake of equal Honour with himself; i. e. that tho he will appoint the Ordinances of his own Worship, and have all that Glory to himself, yet Man shall have the honour to appoint the precise, constant time of his Worship, which is next in point of honour to the other.
3. And by granting Men that Honour and Dignity, it may let in by parity of reason, a Power to alter, and change, if not add new Laws and Ordinances of Worship also.