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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 71.
Nor is any time morally holy, in this sense, viz. instrumentally ⟨p. 59⟩holy, or as an instrument and means by which God will convey any spiritual and supernatural grace (as Sacraments now do, and sacrifices of old did) but being sanctified of God, they are holy seasons, in which, God is pleased to meet and bless his people rather then at other times and days of our own devising, or of more common use▪ reserving only the Lords prerogative to himself, to work at other times also more or less as he sees meet. Indeed it's true, that by our improvement of our time, and of such times, the Lord sweetly conveys himself to us, yet still 'tis not by time it self, nor by the day it self, but as he conveys himself to us by holy things, and at holy places (as the Ark and Temple) so in holy times.
Nor is any time morally holy, in this sense, viz. instrumentally ⟨p. 59⟩holy, or as an instrument and meanes by which God will convey any spirituall and supernaturall grace (as Sacraments now doe, and sacrifices of old did) but being sanctified of God, they are holy seasons, in which, God is pleased to meet and blesse his people rather then at other times and dayes of our owne devising, or of more common use▪ reserving onely the Lords prerogative to himselfe, to work at other times also more or lesse as he sees meet. Indeed it's true, that by our improvement of our time, and of such times, the Lord sweetly conveyes himself to us, yet still 'tis not by time it self, nor by the day it self, but as he conveyes himself to us by holy things, and at holy places (as the Ark and Temple) so in holy times.