A47576:839
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. The only Objection against this Interpretation, is the Judgment of Mr. Ainsworth, and our English Annotators, who take the Sabbath, Levit. 23. for the Feast of the Passover Sabbath.
Answ. 1. Herein they are led by the common Opinion of the Hebrew Doctors, who indeed are excellent Guides when they keep the beaten Road of Scripture; but in many things made void the Commandments of God by their Traditions. Let this Mistake lie at their door; for certainly a mistake it is, and that the morrow after the Sabbath could not be the Passover, is clear, because,
2. It must be such a Morrow after the Sabbath as never falls upon the weekly Sabbath: the reason is plain, because it is the beginning of Harvest, when they put in their Sickle to the Corn, or their Harvest, Levit. 23. 10. Which the are expressly forbidden to do upon their weekly Sabbath, Exod. 34. 21, 22. Six days thou shalt labour, but on the seventh thou shalt rest, both in earing Time and Harvest. And see how this is coupled with the Feast of first Fruits in the very same place, Thou shalt observe the Feast of Weeks, &c.
2. It must be such a Morrow after the Sabbath as never falls upon the weekly Sabbath: the reason is plain, because it is the beginning of Harvest, when they put in their Sickle to the Corn, or their Harvest, Levit. 23. 10. Which the are expresly forbidden to do upon their weekly Sabbath,