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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 59.
A little error is a great breeder, and begets many more; and hence it is that Wallaeus among many others, that he might make the worship it self to be required in the fourth Commandment, disputes therefore against those who place the instituted worship of God▪ directly under the second Commandment, which if he could make good, he had then the fairer probabilities to show that the worship it self was required directly in the fourth Command; which principle if it was granted, would expose the morality of ⟨p. 47⟩the Sabbath to sorer blows and bruises then perhaps appears at first blush: It may not therefore be amiss, but be rather of special use for the clearing up both of the meaning and morality of the fourth command,1 to demonstrate, that the instituted worship of God, (which Wallaeus calls, Cultus externus & instrumentalis salutis nostrae, per auditum verbi & sacramentorum usum, &c.) is directly required in the affirmative part of the second command.
A little errour is a great breeder, and begets many more; and hence it is that Wallaeus among many others, that he might make the worship it selfe to be required in the fourth Commandment, disputes therefore against those who place the instituted worship of God▪ directly under the second Commandment, which if hee could make good, he had then the fairer probabilities to shew that the worship it selfe was required directly in the fourth Command; which principle if it was granted, would expose the morality of ⟨p. 47⟩