A47576:963
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.
It was, saith he, a remarkable day in many respects.
1. It was the eighth day in a continued reckoning of days, which was a number of ⟨p. 220⟩greater Perfection than seven in some respects, witness Circumcision—The Ancients insist much that this Circumcision on the eighth day was a Type of that eighth day on which our Lord rose again from the dead. Thus Cyprian.
1. It was the eighth day in a continued reckoning of days, which was a number of ⟨p. 220⟩greater Perfection than seven in some respects, witness Circumcision—The Antients insist much that this Circumcision on the eighth day was a Type of that eighth day on which our Lord rose again from the dead. Thus Cyprian.
Moreover,1 the first day of the week is a day of greatest Renown, being first in order of Creation, and the first in dignity by our Lord's Resurrection; the first fruits of time, and the first of days, and the only day in which our Lord became the first fruits of them that slept, and the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence: And, say I, the first day of the new World or Kingdom of the Messiah, or Gospel-Dispensation.—Again, we have,2 saith he, another conspicuous Mark to note this day by, above all other days in the week.
Moreover,