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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 37.
If there must be one law in the Decalogue, ceremonial,§37 1that so the more Authority may be procured hereby (as Mr. Primrose pleads) unto all Gods Ordinances, and therefore one of the ceremonials was written in the Decalogue with Gods own finger, and honoured with the like prerogatives as the moral laws were, which were immediately spoken by God himself: Then (if this reasoning be solid) why was not one judicial and another Evangelical precept alike honoured also? For was there not as much need to procure Authority to this as well as to ceremonials? and yet we see their Authority was sufficiently procured without being shusted into the Decalogue, and so might ceremonials also.
If there must be one law in the Decalogue, ceremoniall,§37 1that so the more Authority may bee procured hereby (as Mr. Primrose pleads) unto all Gods Ordinances, and therefore one of the ceremonials was written in the Decalogue with Gods owne finger, and honoured with the like prerogatives as the morall lawes were, which were immediately spoken by God himselfe: Then (if this reasoning be solid) why was not one judiciall and another Evangelicall precept alike honoured also? For was there not as much need to procure Authority to this as well as to ceremonials? and yet wee see their Authority was sufficiently procured without being shusted into the Decalogue, and so might ceremonialls also.