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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 48.
The things which are morally enjoined in this Commandment,§48 are these two, 1. Some things are Primariò; i. Primarily, firstly and more generally moral. 2. Some things are secundariò; i. Secondarily, derivatively and consequently moral.
The things which are morally enjoyned in this Commandment,§48 are these two, 1. Some things are Primariò; i. Primarily, firstly and more generally morall. 2. Some things are secundariò; i. Secondarily, derivatively and consequently morall.
A time, a day, a seventh day of rest are in the first respect moral, but in the other respect this or that particular seventh day may be said to be moral: Things primarily moral are perpetual; things secondarily moral are not necessarily so: As for example, To honour superiors and fathers, whether of Common-wealth or family, is primarily moral, but to honour these or those particular superiors is secondarily moral, because our honouring of them ariseth from that primary and general law of moral equity, viz. that if our fathers are to be honoured, then in the second place it follows, that these and those particular persons being our lawful fathers, are to be honoured also: To honour our fathers whom God hath set over us, is perpetual; to honour these or those particular fathers, is not perpetual, because themselves are not perpetual but changeable. It was a moral duty to honour this particular King David, but it was not perpetual, for when David was taken away, they were not bound to honour King David any more, when King Solomon his son became his successor: nor was it a ceremonial duty to honour this or that particular King, because it was changeable from one to another, but it was a moral duty so to do; wherein the law and rule is not changed (it being primarily moral) but only the object, which we are bound to honour secondarily in respect of the general rule: So 'tis in this law of the Sabbath; To keep a day, a seventh days Sabbath, is perpetual, it being primarily moral, but to observe