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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 72.
There are indeed sundry Scriptures, which to one §72who is willing to have all days equal, may carry a great breadth, and make a specious show; and I ingeniously confess, that upon a rigidum examen of them, they are more weighty and heavy than the disputers in this controversy usually feel them, and therefore they do more lightly cast them by and pass them over: and it is to be wished, that those who do not think that all days are equal, yet will not acknowledge a seventh day to be moral, had not put weapons unawares into the hands of others, strengthening them thereby to destroy the morality of any day, and so to lay all days level, for I scarce know an argument or Scripture alleged, by any Germane writer, against the morality of a seventh day, but it strikes directly against the morality of any day, which yet they acknowledge to be moral.
There are indeed sundry Scriptures, which to one §72who is willing to have all dayes equall, may carry a great bredth, and make a specious shew; and I ingeniously confesse, that upon a rigidum examen of them, they are more weighty and heavy than the disputers in this controversie usually feele them, and therefore they doe more lightly cast them by and passe them over: and it is to bee wished, that those who doe not think that all dayes are equall, yet will not acknowledge a seventh day to be morall, had not put weapons unawares into the hands of others, strengthening them thereby to destroy the morality of any day, and so to lay all dayes levell, for I scarce know an argument or Scripture alledged, by any Germane writer, against the morality of a seventh day, but it strikes directly against the morality of any day, which yet they acknowledge to be morall.