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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 45.
The general consent herein also is this, to wit, That the §45morality of the Sabbath chiefly is in respect of some generality, ⟨p. 38⟩or in respect of something which is more general in this Commandment, rather then in respect of that particular day which the Commandment doth also point at: for if the morality of it did lie in observing that particular day only, how could there be a change of that day to another? For if the morality of a Sabbath was limited unto a particularity, or to that one particular day, it is then impossible that any other day to which that first is changed, should be moral by virtue of the same Commandment: but we shall show in fit place, that the day is lawfully changed and morally observed, and therefore that which is in this Commandment firstly moral, must of necessity be somewhat more general.
The generall consent herein also is this, to wit, That the §45morality of the Sabbath chiefly is in respect of some generality, ⟨p. 38⟩or in respect of something which is more generall in this Commandment, rather then in respect of that particular day which the Commandment doth also point at: for if the morality of it did lie in observing that particular day only, how could there bee a change of that day to another? For if the morality of a Sabbath was limited unto a particularity, or to that one particular day, it is then impossible that any other day to which that first is changed, should be morall by vertue of the same Commandment: but wee shall shew in fit place, that the day is lawfully changed and morally observed, and therfore that which is in this Commandment firstly morall, must of necessity be somewhat more generall.