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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.
2. Wherever the word Sabbaths is used absolutely, as here, without any expression in the Text to limit it, 'tis to be understood of the Weekly Sabbath: The reason of which Rule is obvious, because otherwise the Scripture would be of doubtful Interpretation, and, as 1 Cor. 14. 8. the Trumpet would give an uncertain sound.
3. Therefore, as I said, wherever the word Sabbaths is used, as here, with distinction from Holy Days, or Feasts, and New Moons, it must mean the Weekly Sabbaths, otherwise the Apostle would be guilty of an unnecessary Tautology, ⟨p. 11⟩it being certain there is no other Day called a Sabbath in Scripture, but what is included in those two words. Therefore I conclude, by Sabbaths in this Text not only may, but must be understood the Weekly Sabbath; and consequently it proves not only that Christians are not bound to observe the Jewish Sabbath, but that they ought not so to do.
Take here what Mr. Baxter saith on this Text,1 viz. How plainly and expressly Paul numbereth Sabbaths with Shadows that cease, see Col. 2. 16. to pass by other Texts; and what violence mens own Wits must use in denying the Evidence of so plain a Text. The Reason that he saith not Sabbath, but Sabbaths, is against themselves, the plural Number being most comprehensive, and other Sabbaths receiving their name from this▪ And the word Sabbath is always used in Scripture for a Rest, which was partly Ceremonial. See what Dr. Young in his excellent Dies Domin.saith, &c.