A47576:847
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. The Antitype is the best Key to unlock the Type: And this is clear in the New Testament; for that Christ was our first Fruits in reference to his Resurrection,1 St. Paul assures us; and that he rose from the dead on the morrow after the weekly Sabbath, all the four Evangelists do inform us. And Tho. Tillam has granted, that these things must be punctually fulfilled by Christ, as well in the Time* as in the Type.
- 11 Cor. 15. 20.
- *Truth or Antitype.
From his own Grant therefore I conclude, that the Day of first Fruits was the first day of the Week, and therefore was the Day of Pentecost, to the everlasting honour of that Lord's Day, and the Glory of God the Holy Ghost, who sanctified it by his Presence and Power, sending down a new supply of Tongues from ⟨p. 197⟩Heaven (as if all the Tongues upon Earth were not sufficient) to sound forth the Praises of this Redeemer, and spread the Gospel all over the World on the first day of the Week, as an earnest whereof there was a glorious beginning made on this Day.