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A47576	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1700 (1700)	Wing K73; ESTC R7556	176,774	438

Prophecies of him to that time for the Work of Redemption could not be finished till he rose from the dead Take what the Doctor further saith to this It remains saith he only that we enquire into Christ's entrance into his Rest both how and when he did so even as God entered into his on the Seventh-day For this saith he must limit and determine a Day of Rest to the Gospel-Church Now this was not his lying down in the Grave His Body indeed there rested for a while But that was no part of his mediatory Rest as he was the Founder and Builder of the Church For 1. It was part of his Humiliation Not only his death but his abode and continuance in the state of death was so and a principal part of it For after the whole human Nature was united to the Person of the Son of God to have it brought into a state of dissolution or to have the Body and Soul separated from each other was a great Humiliation And every thing of this nature belonged to his Work and not to his Rest 2. This separation of Body and Soul under the Power of Death was penal a part of the Sentence of the Law which he underwent And therefore Peter declares that the Pains of Death were not loosed but by his Resurrection Acts 2. 24. This therefore could not be his Rest or any part of it 3. Nor did he first enter into his Rest at his Ascension then he indeed took possession of his Glory But to enter into his Rest is one thing and to take possession of Glory another And it is placed by the Apostle as the Consequent of his being justified in the Spirit 1 Tim. 3. 16. But this his entring into Rest was in and by his Resurrection from the dead For 1. Then and there he was freed from the Sentence Power and Stroke of the Law being discharged of all the Debts of our Sins which he had undertaken to make satisfaction for Acts 2. 24. 2. Then and therein were all Types all Predictions and Prophecies fulfilled which concerned the Work of our Redemption 3. Then and therein his Work was done which answered to God's Creating-work 4. Then and therein he was declared the Son of God with Power Rom. 1. 4. Thus did the Author of the new Creation P. 286. Sect. 24. the Son of God the builder of the Church having finished his Work enter into his Rest And this was on the morning of the first day of the Week And hereby he did limit and determine the Day for our Sabbatical Rest under the New Testament for now was the old Covenant utterly abolished and therefore the Day which was the Pledg of God's and Man's Rest therein was to be taken away and accordingly was as we have proved And this is that which the Apostle affirms as the substance of all he hath evinced P. 287. Sect. 25. namely that there is a Sabbatism for the People of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word is framed by our Apostle from an Hebrew Original with a Greek Termination and he useth it as that which is comprehensive of his whole sense which no other word would be for he would shew there is a Sabbatical Rest founded in the Rest of God God-man remaining for the Church and therefore makes use of the same word whereby God expressed his own Rest when he sanctified the Seventh-day for a day of Rest thereon Again he further proves that the Apostle asserts an Evangelical Sabbath or day of Rest to be constantly observed in and for the Worship of God under the Gospel Thus far and to this effect speaks Dr. Owen 'T is my Brethren the Apostle's business in this Chapter as the Doctor has proved to shew an Institution of the first day of the Week and this upon the great Work of Redemption and Christ's resting from his Works as God did from his as also the manner of his entering into his Rest which was not till all our Work was done by our Surety and our Burden was born by him for us for till then we could not enter into his Rest And being in his Rest he has appointed this Day as a Pledg thereof that we may begin with God give him the first Day and so seek first the Kingdom of God First as to the early days of our Life first in the Day and first in every day of the Week Brethren we have Rest before we work or labour for it and so work from Rest Life and Peace and not work for Life or to enter into Rest that way as they were to do under the old Covenant Remarkable is that passage of Paul As many as walk according to this Rule that is the Rule of the new Creature or new Creation Peace be on them And as in matters of Worship so in respect to the new Day of Worship the Apostle pronounceth Peace to such c. And thus I have shewed how the first Day was confirmed by the miraculous effusion of the Spirit and also the Foundation and Institution of this Day as here laid down by the Apostle Fourthly The first Day made by the Lord for a Day of Rest Joy and Gladness in God's Worship My fourth Argument to prove the Institution of the first Day of the Week shall be taken from Psal 118. 22 23 24. The Stone that the Builders refused is become the head Stone of the Corner This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our sight This is the Day the Lord hath made we will be glad and rejoice in it 1. Pray observe that our Lord became the Head-stone of the Corner on the day of his happy Resurrection on this day the Gospel-Church took its beginning On this day he entered into his Rest and was invested with actual Victory over all his Enemies and clothed with Soveraign Power and Authority as King and Law-giver 2. Well and what saith the Holy Ghost This is the Day the Lord hath made 1. He speaks as all Expositors note of the particular day of Christ's Resurrection 2. And that this is the Day which the Lord hath made How made God created that and every day of the Week at first But this Day is constituted or made for some special end and use above any other day in the Week Nothing lies more plain in the Text than this 3. The Lord hath made it i. e. instituted or appointed it to these great Ends not the Apostles not the Church not Man but the Lord himself hath made it 4. And then the Gospel-Church and all Gospel-Believers signified by this word we resolve upon this Great Authority to observe it we will rejoice and be glad in it Here it is foretold that God hath singularly made created or instituted this Day for us to meet together and to worship him with joy and gladness of heart and accordingly we have proved it was confirmed I challenge any man to shew us a

take so much pains and to travel so far for and in the due Celebration of the Lord's-day as if another should do the like without his Occasions and Circumstances it would be a profanation of it 3. I do not believe it unlawful to dress a Dinner or Supper on the Lord's-day Refreshments helpful to Nature so far as to refresh it that it may have a supply of Spirits to go on chearfully in the Duties of holy Worship saith the Doctor are lawful and useful to macerate the Body with Abstinences on this day is required of none and to turn it into a Fast or to fast upon this day is generally condemn'd by the Antients Wherefore to forbear provision of necessary Food for Families on this day is Mosaical and the enforcement of the particular Precepts about not kindling a Fire on this day baking and preparing the Food of it the day before cannot be insisted on without a Re-introduction of the seventh Day precisely to whose observation they were annexed and thereby of the Spirit of the old Covenant 1. Provided always these Refreshments be seasonable for the time of them and not when publick Duties require our attendance on them And 2. Accompanied with singular regard to the Rules of Temperance As 1. That there be no appearance of Evil. 2. That Nature be not charged with any kind of Excess so far as to be hindered rather than assisted in the Duties of the Day 3. That they are accompanied with Gravity and Sobriety and Purity of Conversation To which let me add certainly Masters of Families ought to take heed they do not put their Servants upon greater Labour on that day * Nor their Beasts neither since God allows them this one day of the Week for Rest than needs must so as to hinder them from a due attendance as often as possible on God's publick Worship Now what Dr. Owen saith quite differs from that overheated Zeal which appeared in some Godly Ministers in former times What think you of what Dr. White † Bishop of Ely on the Sabbath p. 235. Mr. Tho. Rogers Pref. before the Articles relates in his Treatise of the Sabbath concerning some Zealots in his time about sixty years ago I have read and many there be alive which will justify it how it was preach'd in a Market Town in Oxfordshire that to do any servile Work or Business on the Lord's-day is as great a Sin as to kill a Man or to commit Adultery It was preached in Somersetshire that to throw a Bowl on the Sabbath-day is as great a Sin as to kill a Man It was preached in Norfolk that to make a Feast or Wedding Dinner on the Lord's-day day is as great a Sin as for a Father to take a Knife and cut his own Child's Throat It was preached in Suffolk I can name the Man and I was present when he was convened before his Ordinary for preaching the same that to ring more Bells than one on the Lord's-day to call the People to Church is as great a Sin as to commit Murder Such unaccountable Zeal hath done no small mischief to the Cause of Christ Two things I observe from what the Doctor notes 1. That these Men thought we are under the like Obligation in observance of the first Day as the Jews were on their seventh Day 2. That they thought the Morality of the fourth Commandment consisted in the observation of the Lord's-day or the first Day of the week and so is a pure Moral Precept both which I utterly deny and the contrary I have proved Secondly in the Affirmative I do say that the first Day tho it be of mere positive Right ought to be observed wholly to the Lord He that observes a day let him observe it to the Lord and day much more the Lord's-day 1. To the Lord not to our selves i.e. for our external Profit or Pleasure 2. To the Lord that is the whole day not a part of it but the whole day from Morning to Evening III. That we begin the Day early in the Morning first in private and then in Family Devotion 1. In reading some part of God's Word and 2. In Prayer laying aside all worldly business but what is of absolute necessity and as much as in us lies all worldly Discourse and earthly or worldly Thoughts that the Lord on his Day may have our Hearts as well as our Ears Tongues and Feet and then to attend the publick Worship and that early on the first Day of the week to seek Jesus as Mary Magdalen did Certainly it is a horrid shame in any to take more liberty for Sleep or otherwise to gratify the Flesh on this day than they do on other days of the week when imploy'd in doing their own Business Do Men require the whole Day and with the greatest care and diligence to do their Work And doth not the holy God require our utmost care and diligence in his Work and Service Mal. 1. 14. Cursed is the Deceiver which hath in his Flock a Male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing c. Again it is said Jer. 48. 10. Cursed be he that doth the Work of the Lord negligently or deceitfully that is with a cold and careless Spirit My Brethren God is a great King and a jealous God for his Name and sacred Worship Levit. 10. 3. and he will be sanctified by all that draw near to him And we must I say shew greater Care and Zeal in our serving him on his Day if possible than in doing Work for Man 1. He requires it of us Eccl. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might 2. He more deserves it from our hands Should a Servant come to his day's Work at ten a Clock certainly his Master would soon turn him off O take heed lest God severely rebuke you for your sloth and carelesness in not attending early on his publick Worship IV. In the Evening to close the Lord's-day in reading instructing our Families and in repeating what we have heard or in meditating thereon and in Prayer and singing of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs Thus the Primitive Christians kept the Lord's Day * Read Dr. Young on the Lord's Day of the next Age to the Apostles V. Preparation for the Publick Worship is very necessary therefore besure you always come into the Church from your Closets bearing your Ministers upon your Hearts that so the Word of God may run and be glorified and your own Souls secretly fed and edified together And let no small matters hinder you neither the length of the way nor weather say with your self Sure I would not make these a plea or excuse were I to receive some great earthly Profit VI. As to the Publick Worship that consists in reading God's Word Preaching Prayer and singing of Psalms with a free and charitable contribution for the poor Saints on every First-day of the Week