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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.
1. That Pentecost is the same which is called the Feast of Harvest, Exod. 23. 16. and the Feast of Weeks, Deut. 16. 10. this all agree in.
2. That it is called by a Greek name Pentecost (or the fiftieth day) because always to be observed on the fiftieth day from the offering of the wave sheaf, as we read Lev. 23. 15, 16.
3. Now that this day of Pentecost was not upon the Jewish Sabbath, but on the day after it, is expressly asserted in the last mentioned Text, Lev. 23. 11. And he shall wave ⟨p. 187⟩the Sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you; •n the morrow after the Sabbath the Priest shall wave it. And in ver. 15, 16. they were commanded to count from thence seven Sabbaths, and on the morrow after the seventh Sabbath to keep the fiftieth day or Pentecost. 1Observe, the Sheaf was to be waved the day after the Sabbath; this is spoken in contradistinction to the Feasts spoken of in the 2d Verse, which are elsewhere called Sabbaths: but here is an Emphasis laid on the word [the Sabbath] i. e. the Sabbath spoken of ver. 3. And that it is not meant of any of those fore-mentioned Feasts, appears in that there are not any particular Feasts mentioned, but there is a Command to observe them, and the word is in the plural number there. Therefore no particular Feasts, as the first day of unleavened Bread, but the Seventh-day Sabbath is directly here meant. For wherever there is mention of the Sabbath without a restriction to any other Feasts, it is to be understood of the Seventh-day Sabbath, as