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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 44.
For clearing up whereof, it may not be amiss to take notice ⟨p. 36⟩§44of the agreement (at least in words) herein, on all hands, even by those who oppose that morality of the Sabbath which we plead for. All sides agree in this, viz. That the law of this fourth Commandment concerning the Sabbath, is moral. But as the differences about the meaning of Tu es Petrus are many, so here the difficulty lies to know, how, and in what sense and respect it may be called moral; for Master Ironside expressly consents in this,1 viz. That all the Commandments of the Decalogue are moral, but every one in his proportion and degree, and so (saith he) is that of the Sabbath, it is moral for substance, but not for circumstance.
For clearing up whereof, it may not be amisse to take notice ⟨p. 36⟩§44of the agreement (at least in words) herein, on all hands, even by those who oppose that morality of the Sabbath which we plead for. All sides agree in this, viz. That the law of this fourth Commandment concerning the Sabbath, is morall. But as the differences about the meaning of Tu es Petrus are many, so here the difficulty lies to know, how, and in what sense and respect it may bee called morall; for Master Ironside expressely consents in this,1