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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 76.
If any man shall put any holiness in a day which God ⟨p. 63⟩doth not, and so think one day more holy than another, this is most abominable superstition, and this is indeed to observe days; and of this the Apostle seems to speak, when he saith, Ye observe days: But when the Lord shall put holiness upon one day more then upon another, we do not then put any holiness in the day, but God doth it, nor do we place any holiness in one day more then in another, but God placeth it first, and this is no observation of days, which the Apostle condemns in those that were weak; but of the will of God which he every where commands.
If any man shall put any holinesse in a day which God ⟨p. 63⟩doth not, and so think one day more holy than another, this is most abominable superstition, and this is indeed to observe dayes; and of this the Apostle seems to speak, when he saith, Ye observe dayes: But when the Lord shall put holines upon one day more then upon another, we do not then put any holines in the day, but God doth it, nor doe we place any holines in one day more then in another, but God placeth it first, and this is no observation of dayes, which the Apostle condemns in those that were weak; but of the will of God which he every where commands.