A47576:986
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.
1. Observe, 'tis said in the Context, that Paul stayed at Troas seven days. And by the way note, that he was there upon one of the Jews Sabbath-days, but then the Church met not together; and it is evident also that Paul waited till the First-day came, that he might not only preach to them when they were generally assembled together, but also celebrate the Lord's Supper before he departed.
Now that this was the First-day of the Week, none can reasonably deny: But since Mr. Banfield, Mr. Smith, Mr. Soarsby, and others, do doubt of it, take what divers ⟨p. 225⟩Learned Men have said; and first Dr. du Veil.
Upon the first day of the Week;1 that is, that day, as Sozomon saith, which is called the Lord's Day, which the Hebrews called the first day of the Week,2 but the Greeks dedicated it to the […] the Table of Canons lately published by the famous John Baptist Cotelerius: It was not before Christ's Resurrection called the Lord's Day, but the first Day; but after the Resurrection it was called the Lord's Day, the Lady of all Days, &c. We have the name of the Lord's Day in Rev. 1. 10. in Ignatius his Epistle to the Trallians and Magnesians: And sometimes in Clement's Institutions; also in that place of Ireneus, which the writer of the Answers to the Orthodox in Justin Martyr hath preserved to us—
Vpon the first day of the Week;1