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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 35.
There is therefore no necessity of making one law in the Decalogue to be ceremonial, that it may be the summary head of all ceremonials, viz. because ceremonials are branches of the covenant, which is the Decalogue; for upon the like ground there must be one judicial law also as the summary of all judicials, nay one Evangelical law also as the head of all Evangelicals, sprinkled here and there in Moses his writings, of which we read John 5.43. Rev. 10.6, 7, 8. with Deut. 30.12, 13. Gal. 3.8. with Gen. 12.3. for judicials and Evangelicals are branches of the Covenant, as well as ceremonials, if Mr. Primrose his principle be true; but if by his own confession nine of them are morals, and one of them only the head of ceremonials, how shall judicial and Evangelical summaries come in? which either he must make room for in the Decalogue, or acknowledge his foundation to be rotten, upon which he hath built up one ceremonial law among the nine morals.
There is therefore no necessity of making one law in the Decalogue to bee ceremoniall, that it may be the summary head of all ceremonials, viz. because ceremonialls are branches of the covenant, which is the Decalogue; for upon the like ground there must bee one judiciall law also as the summary of all judicials, nay one Evangelicall law also as the head of all Evangelicals, sprinkled here and there in Moses his writings, of which we read