A47576:821
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.
2. It was called the Feast of First-fruits, and of Harvest; because as they began their Harvest upon the first of the fifty days when they offered the Sheaf of First-fruits, so they ended it upon the fiftieth day, which was properly the Feast-day: Upon which they offered the Wave-loaves. And these fifty days or seven weeks were the appointed weeks of their Harvest; and by the offering of the Sheaf at the beginning of their Harvest there, their after-Fruits were sanctified. And the offering of the loaves on the fiftieth day was not only an Eucharistical Oblation, but also a token of the Harvest being finished.
2. It was call'd the Feast of First-fruits, and of Harvest; because as they began their Harvest upon the first of the fifty days when they offered the Sheaf of First-fruits, so they ended it upon the fiftieth day, which was properly the Feast-day: Upon which they offered the Wave-loaves. And these fifty days or seven weeks were the appointed weeks of their Harvest; and by the offering of the Sheaf at the beginning of their Harvest there, their after-Fruits were sanctified. And the offering of the •oaves on the fiftieth day was not only an Eu•haristical Oblation, but also a token of the Harvest being finished.
3. It is called the Feast of Pentecost, 1because it was ever kept the fiftieth day; the fiftieth, •ow reckoned? from the morrow after the Sabbath (that is, the first day of the week) •ut what mark had they to know their morrow […]? Moses tells them, when you shall reap the Harvest of your Land; or when you begin to •eap it, for so 'tis expounded in Deut. 16. 9. Begin to number the seven Weeks from such a •ime as thou beginnest to put the Sickle to the orn. So, that when they began their Harvest, they must begin their account of fifty ays.