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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.
The reserving (saith he) a seventh part I hold to be God's Ordinance, who is not variable in his choice, but as everlasting as the World.
And so should the hallowing of the Seventh-day from the Creation have been, had it not been for Sin; for what could have altered it but a new Creation?
2. But Man having sinned, and so abolished the first Creation de jure, tho not de facto, God was pleased to make by Christ an instauration [or renewal] of the World (he means, as I conceive, God so abolished the old Creation, that no precise Day remains to be observed in the remembrance of it) and by Christ in redemption hath made a new Heaven and a new Earth; and old things being passed away; all things are become new: Yea, every man in Christ is a new Creature (or of the new Creation.) And as God when he ended his Work of the first Creation, made a Day of Rest, and sanctified it: So Christ when he ended the Work of Redemption, made a Day of Rest, and sanctified it; not altering the proportion of Time which is perpetual, but taking the first of seven for his portion, because it suits with his new Creation, and with his entering into it through him; that old being a Legal Rite, and suiting with the Covenant of Works, which is abolished with the Covenant it self; but the new, the first of seven, remains for ever.
2. But Man having sinned, and so abolished the first Creation de jure, tho not de facto, God was pleased to make by Christ an instauration [or renewal] of the World (he means, as I conceive, God so abolished the old Creation, that no precise Day remains to be observed in the remembrance of it) and by Christ in redemption hath made a new Heaven and a new Earth; and old things being passed away; all things are become new: Yea, every man in Christ is a new Creature (or of the new Creation.) And as God when he ended his Work of the first Creation, made a Day of Rest, and sanctified it: So Christ when he ended the Work of Redemption, made a Day of Rest, and sanctified it; not altering the proportion of Time which is perpetual, but taking the first of seven for his portion, because it sutes with his new Creation, and with his entring into it thro him; that old being a Legal Rite, and suting with the Covenant of Works, which is abolished with the Covenant it self; but the new, the first of seven, remains for ever.