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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 36.
It is true, that among men, the same body of Laws may §36be framed up of divers articles, as Mr. Primrose pleads, but that the Decalogue was such a body as had ceremonials ⟨p. 31⟩mixed with morals, it can never be made good by any colour of proof, except it be that which we have shown will as strongly enforce an introduction of some one judicial and another Evangelical law into the Decalogue, as well as one ceremonial; but such a confusion of Law and Gospel, Evangelicals and judicials, ceremonials and morals, the blessed God abhors: for it neither suits with Gods wisdom and end in giving the law, nor yet with mans weakness (which God pities) to make such a jumbling and confusion of things together: for who can then tell what law is moral and what Evangelical, and what ceremonial, unless it be (as was shown) by flying for light to the dictates and instinct of nature, to show unto poor deceitful man, what laws are moral and what not, wherein the remedy would have been as bad as the disease?
It is true, that among men, the same body of Lawes may §36be framed up of divers articles, as Mr. Primrose pleads, but that the Decalogue was such a body as had ceremonials ⟨p. 31⟩mixt with morals, it can never be made good by any colour of proof, except it be that which we have shewn will as strongly enforce an introduction of some one judiciall and another Evangelicall law into the Decalogue, as well as one ceremoniall; but such a confusion of Law and Gospell, Evangelicals and judicials, ceremonialls and morals, the blessed God abhorres: for it neither suits with Gods wisedome and end in giving the law, nor yet with mans weaknesse (which God pitties) to make such a jumbling and confusion of things together: for who can then tell what law is morall and what Evangelicall, and what ceremoniall, unlesse it be (as was shewn) by flying for light to the dictates and instinct of nature, to shew unto poore deceitfull man, what lawes are morall and what not, wherein the remedy would have been as bad as the disease?