A47576:779
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.
Object. But where is there a Divine appointment of the first Day of the Week; and by whom was it required?
Answ. This is the cry of our Adversaries: and I answer, that I doubt not but our Lord and Saviour at this time did institute it, and also gave command to his Disciples to observe it. I know some others have cried, Where is laying on of hands either upon Elders, or baptized Believers as such commanded? and so of divers other things: as if every Precept of the Gospel must be laid down in express words of command because some of them are.
Answ. This is the cry of our Adversaries: and I answer, that I doubt not but our Lord and Saviour at this time did institute it, and also gave command to his Disciples to observe it. I know some others have cryed, Where is laying on of hands either upon Elders, or baptized Believers as such commanded? and so of divers other things: as if every Precept of the Gospel must be laid down in express words of command because some of them are.
1. But to proceed; Let it be well considered, that as I have proved from the fourth Command, that a Time, a sufficient Time for Rest, and in ⟨p. 183⟩the solemn Worship of God, is a simple Moral Duty: