A47576:990
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.
This Meeting (another saith) was upon the first day of the Week [Greek or Hebrew]:1 Which phrase, tho Gomarus, Primrose, Heylin, and many others go about to translate thus, viz. upon one of the days of the Week, yet this is sufficient to dash that Dream.
This Meeting (another saith) was upon the first day of the Week 〈non-Latin alphabet〉:1 Which phrase, tho Gomarus, Primrose, Heylin, and many others go about to translate thus, viz. upon one of the days of the Week, yet this is sufficient to dash that Dream.
- 1Shepherd on the Sab. p. 215.
That [Greek or Hebrew] signifies on the first day of the Week,1 the generality of the Ancients both Greeks and Latins agree; whose Testimony about the sense of a word is the best Dictionary. And the same Phrase used of the day of Christ's Resurrection by the Evangelists, proveth it. Had it been said that Paul abode seven days at Troas, and on the seventh ⟨p. 226⟩day of the Week when the Disciples came together to break Bread, no doubt but these Sabbatarians would have made this no small proof to observe the old Jewish Sabbath; and I confess it would have been a good Argument for their practice; or had Paul […] the Churches observed the seventh day: and yet they will not allow it to be a proof for the observation of the first day.
That 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifys on the first day of the Week,