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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.
Thesis 33.
Some of those who maintain the law of the Sabbath to be ceremonial,1 affirm that every Law in the Decalogue is not moral upon this ground, to wit, because the Law is called Gods Covenant, which Covenant they show from sundry instances, not only to comprehend morals, but also ceremonials: for they make it the excellency of the Decalogue to comprehend, as a short epitome, all Gods Ordinances, both moral and ceremonial, which epitome is more largely opened in the writings of Moses, where not only moral, but also ceremonial laws are expressed and dispersed. And hence they think that as the other nine are the summary and epitome of all moral Ordinances, so the fourth Commandment which was kept with the practise of Ceremonies, was the summary and epitome of all the ceremonial ordinances, and hence the fourth Commandment becomes ceremonial. But for answer to this wily notion, unjustly fathered upon Austin and Calvin by some, it may thus far be granted, that as the word Law is sometimes taken more strictly for the Decalogue only, Rom. 3.20. James 3.8. and sometimes more largely, for the whole doctrine contained in all the writings of the Old Testament, wherein the Gospel also is comprehended, Psal. 19.7. Psalm 119.1.51, 55. so the word Covenant is sometime taken more strictly for the covenant of works, which is contained compendiously in the Decalogue only, writ by the finger of God, in two Tables,