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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 47.
But because a seventh day may be accounted convenient by some, and moral by others, and because the determination of it may be made by some, either more lax or narrow, viz. either to any day in seven, which man or the Church may appoint; or to such a seventh day as God shall determine, It is therefore needful for the clearing up ⟨p. 39⟩of this controversy, to seek out with an impartial and sober mind, the true meaning of the fourth Commandment, and to enquire more particularly and exactly what is required it it, and what is commanded by virtue of it, which some able men not taking a right observation of in the dark and tempestuous times of controversy, have therefore made miserable shipwreck, not only of the truth, but also of themselves, and souls of others.
But because a seventh day may be accounted convenient by some, and morall by others, and because the determination of it may bee made by some, either more lax or narrow, viz. either to any day in seven, which man or the Church may appoint; or to such a seventh day as God shall determine, It is therefore needfull for the clearing up ⟨p. 39⟩of this controversie, to seek out with an impartiall and sober mind, the true meaning of the fourth Commandment, and to enquire more particularly and exactly what is required it it, and what is commanded by vertue of it, which some able men not taking a right observation of in the dark and tempestuous times of controversie, have therefore made miserable shipwrack, not onely of the truth, but also of themselves, and souls of others.