A47576:79
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.
6. To put it quite out of doubt what Days he intends, read Col. 2. 16. Let no man judg you in Meats, or Drinks, or in respect of a holy Day, or of the New Moons, or of the Sabbath Days; which are a Shadow of things to come, but the Body is of Christ.
I. Now were any of the Idolatrous Days among the Heathen, shadows of things to come, or of Christ? was he, or that Rest he hath brought in, the Antitype of them?
II. He speaks of a Holy Day, as a Term given to the Seventh-Day in the Old Testament, and of Sabbath-Days; and do any think he means by neither the Seventh-Day Sabbath, and yet speaks of Sabbath-Days distinct from New-Moons, Times, and Years? Certainly he must intend, in one or the other, the Jewish weekly Sabbath days. I find a very Learned Man writing on this Text, speaking thus, viz. for which also he cites St. Hierom: Paul writ this Epistle in the sixteenth year after Christ; he lays it positively down that the Sabbath was now abrogated, with the other Ceremonies which were to vanish at Christ's coming. Let no man judg you, &c. the Sabbath, saith he, is well matched with Meats and Drinks, New Moons, and Holy Days, which were all Temporary Ordinances, and to go off the stage at our Saviour's entrance. And that Paul means the Seventh-day Sabbaths, he cites Ambrose, Hierom, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Augustin, and their particular Books: that they understood Paul thus in Col. 2. 16. as he did,1 take what Hierom saith as follows; There is no Sermon of the Apostles, saith he, either delivered by Epistle, or by word of Mouth, wherein he labours not to prove, that all the Burdens of the Law are now laid away (that ⟨p. 10⟩