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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 51.
First therefore, That which is most generally moral in this command, is that which is called Tempus cultus or the time of worship; now this time must either be indeterminate time, which necessarily attends all acts of worship, and duties of piety, or else determinate and solemn time. Indeterminate time is not required here, because to make a special commandment about such a time, would be both needless and ridiculous, for if it be impossible that any duty should be performed without such time, then wherever that duty is required, the time which necessarily attends it must be supposed and enjoined in the same commandment: Some determinate and solemn time is therefore herein generally, though not only commanded.
First therefore, That which is most generally morall in this command, is that which is called Tempus cultus or the time of worship; now this time must either be indeterminate time, which necessarily attends all acts of worship, and duties of piety, or else determinate and solemne time. Indeterminate time is not required here, because to make a speciall commandment about such a time, would be both needlesse and ridiculous, for if it bee impossible that any duty should bee performed without such time, then whereever that duty is required, the time which necessarily attends it must bee supposed and enjoyned in the same commandment: Some determinate and solemne time is therefore herein generally, though not onely commanded.