A47576:870
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.
In this state of things. God had of old determined the Renovation of all things by a new Creation, a new Law of that Creation, a new Covenant, and a new Sabbatical Rest to his Glory by Jesus Christ—
And this Renovation of all things accordingly to be accomplished in Christ.1 'Tis said, Old things are past away, and behold all things are become new; the old Law, the old Covenant, old ⟨p. 202⟩Worship,2 old Sabbath, and all that was peculiar to the Covenant of Works as such, in the first Institution of it, and its renewed Declaration on Mount Sinai, all are gone and antiquated. —And what now remains of them as to any usefulness in our living to God, doth not abide on the old Foundation, but on a new Disposition of them by the Renovation of all things in Christ, Eph. 1. 10.—
- 12 Cor. 5. 17, 18.
- 2Pag. 258.
A new Law of Obedience is introduced by the new Creation in Christ Jesus—And there is a great Renovation thereof showed in God's writing his Law in our Hearts, not here to be insisted on—God brings over*