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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 55.
It is generally and frequently affirmed by those who seek to support the morality of the Sabbath, to wit, that the exercise of worship and holy duties at this time, is required for the duties sake, as at other times, the time is required for the times sake; by which words they seem to make the bare circumstance of time to be required here; but this assertion had need be understood with much candour, and the true explication of it; for in some sense its most true which our Saviour affirms, that man is not made for the Sabbath or the time of it, Mark 2.27.
It is generally and frequently affirmed by those who seek to support the morality of the Sabbath, to wit, that the exercise of worship and holy duties at this time, is required for the duties sake, as at other times, the time is required for the times sake; by which words they seem to make the bare circumstance of time to bee required here; but this assertion had need be understood with much candor, and the true explication of it; for in some sense its most true which our Saviour affirms, that man is not made for the Sabbath or the time of it, Mark 2.27.