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Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II.…
Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth Commandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the moral law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth COmmandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the morall law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...
London: printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, 1650
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.
and in this respect let any man tell me what greater sin he can imagine, then sins against the greatest Love? The same sins which are committed upon other days in the Week are then provoking sins; but to commit these sins upon the Sabbath Day, is to double the evil of them: Drinking and Swearing, and Rioting, and vain Talking, &c. are sins on the week-day, but they are now but single sins; but these are such like sins on the Sabbath Day are double sins, because they are now not only sins against Gods command, but also against Gods Sabbaths too, which much aggravates them; and yet men mourn not for these sins; had the Lord never made known his Sabbaths to his Churches and People in these days, they might then have had some excuse for their sin; but now to profane them since God hath made them known to us; especially the English Nation and People to do it, upon whom the Lord hath shined out of Heaven with greater light and glory in this point of the Sabbath, above any other places and Churches in the World, what will they have to say for themselves, with what Fig-leaves will they hide this nakedness before the Tribunal of God?
and in this respect let any man tell me what greater sinne he can imagine, then sinnes against the greatest Love? The same sinnes which are committed upon other daies in the Weeke are then provoking sinnes; but to commit these sinnes upon the Sabbath Day, is to double the evill of them: Drinking and Swearing, and Rioting, and vaine Talking, &c. are sinnes on the weeke-day, but they are now but single sinnes; but these are such like sinnes on the Sabbath Day are double sinnes, because they are now not only sinnes against Gods command, but also against Gods Sabbaths too, which much aggravates them; and yet men mourn not for these sinnes; had the Lord never made knowne his Sabbaths to his Churches and People in these daies, they might then have had some excuse for their sinne; but now to prophane them since God hath made them knowne to us; especially the English Nation and People to do it, upon whom the Lord hath shined out of Heaven with greater light and glory in this point of the Sabbath, above any other places and Churches in the World, what will they have to say for themselves, with what Fig-leaves will they hide this nakednesse before the Tribunal of God?