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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.
Our Adversary Tillam Confesses,1 that this was the most glorious Sabbath that ever the Church enjoyed; only he persuaded himself and others it was the Saturday-Sabbath: but herein he befools himself, and deceives others.
Our Adversary Tillam Confesses,1 that this was the most glorious Sabbath that ever the Church enjoyed; only he perswaded himself and others it was the Saturday-Sabbath: but herein he befools himself, and deceives others.
- 1Pag. 81.
5. 'Tis strange indeed any should once suppose the Feast of Pentecost could ever fall on the Seventh-day Sabbath; because as the Wave-Offering was to be offered the morrow after the Sabbath, so from that very day inclusively they were to count seven Sabbaths, and then the morrow after the last of the seven was the fifth day, i. e. Pentecost. I need not say any more to this.
To conclude, after all attempts to the contrary, the Glory of the Spirit's Mission rests on the first day of the Week: This day the Church of Christ was visited from on high, the Promise of the Father was sent, the blessed Spirit came; the Disciples were assembled, Peter preached, and three thousand were converted and baptized; and all this is written: Why the Church ⟨p. 198⟩assembled? (as Mr. Sprint argues) Why on this Day? Why the Holy Ghost? Why preaching, why conversion, and administration of the Sacraments? Why the Promise of Christ accomplished all on this Day? but still to declare the Will of Christ in appointing, blessing, and sanctifying of this Day to his Church, and making it a day of public solemn Worship, as a Day in all its Prerogatives above all other Days: A Day of Christ's Resurrection, by which we are justified, in which he ceased from his Work, as God did from his on the Seventh, and so hath the same reason for a Day of Rest: the Day […] the Holy Spirit's descension, by whom we are sanctified: a Day of assembling and preaching, on which Sinners were converted, and Believers edified; by which the whole Trinity is glorified.