A47576:867
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 in pursuit of this I shall here cite some material Passages out of Dr. Owen on the Sabbath, who has fully confirmed what I here assert.
How the Creation of all things was finished,1 and the Rest of God and Man that ensued thereon, hath been (saith he) declared. It hath also in part, and sufficiently as to our present purpose, been evidenced, how the great Ends of the Creation of all, in the Glory of God, and the Blessedness of Man in him, with the Pledge thereof in a sabbatical Rest, were for a season as it were defeated and disappointed by the entrance of Sin, which brake the Covenant that was founded in the Law of Creation, and rendered it useless unto those Ends—
How the Creation of all things was finished,1 and the Rest of God and Man that ensued thereon, hath been (saith he) declared. It hath also in part, and sufficiently as to our present purpose, been evidenced, how the great Ends of the Creation of all, in the Glory of God, and the Blessedness of Man in him, with the Pledg thereof in a sabbatical Rest, were for a season as it were defeated and disappointed by the entrance of Sin, which brake the Covenant that was founded in the Law of Creation, and rendered it useless unto those Ends—
- 1Dr. Owen on the Sab. p. 256.
Hence it could no more bring Man to rest in God; but yet there was the continuation of the obligatory Force of the Law and Covenant, and hence of the Sabbatical Rest in the Church of Israel, with the especial application of its Command to that People—