A47576:890
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.
There is the Rest of the one and the other; and these (saith he) also have their mutual proportion. Now God rested from his own Work of Creation,
1. By ceasing from creating, only continuing all things by his Power in their order and propagation to his Glory.
2. By his Respect to them, and Refreshment in them, as those which expressed his Excellencies, and set forth his Praise, and so satisfied his glorious Design.
1. So Christ also must cease working, i. e. he must die no more, suffer no more, but only continue the Work of his Grace and Power in the preservation of the new Creation, and the orderly increase and propagation of it by his Spirit.
2. He takes delight and satisfaction in the Works he hath wrought; for he sees of the travel of his Soul,