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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
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Thesis 34.
It should not seem strange that that law which in the general §34nature of it is moral, may in the particular application ⟨p. 30⟩of it be unto a thing ceremonial, and in this respect it cannot be denied but that the moral law may comprehend all ceremonial laws; but it will not hence follow (as Mr. Primrose infers) that one law in the Decalogue must be ceremonial as the head and summary of all ceremonial laws, because we say ceremonial laws may be comprehended under some moral law, as special applications thereof: ex gr. It is a moral law to worship God according to his own will, and not after mans inventions, as the second Commandment holds it forth: Now in the application of this law the Lord points out his own instituted worship in sundry significant ceremonies, sacrifices, sacraments, &c. which particular institutions (though ceremonial) are to be referred unto, and are comprehended under the second Commandment which is a moral law: for if God will be worshipped with his own worship according to this Commandment, then its necessary for the Lord to show (and that under his Commandment) what those institutions be, wherein he will be worshipped, many of which are ceremonial, which are therefore directly comprehended here.
It should not seem strange that that law which in the generall §34nature of it is moral, may in the particular application ⟨p. 30⟩