A47576:862
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.
Now there are but two great and general Instances in which God is said to rest, viz.
1. That after the first Creation was finished, God rested from all his Work, namely, from Creation-work, so as he never will create any material thing again to the end of the World. As to his creating the Soul, that is not the creating of any new Species of Beings.
2. The Rest of God-man, after he had finished the Work of Redemption, or the second Creation, which is never to be repeated. Now there is a moral Reason which is deducible from the fourth Commandment, that whenever God rests, there is a Foundation of a day of Rest for Man, comporting with the nature and tendency of each Covenant to which that Rest doth refer.
[Thou shalt do no manner of Work, &c. for in six days, &c.] The word for implies a moral Reason, which makes it applicable to any Rest of God, therefore to God's Rest from the Work of Redemption, I mean that of Godman, which is also deducible from Heb. 4 Christ rested from his Work, as God did from his.