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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 79.
But this is not the ordinary principle by which many are ⟨p. 65⟩led to maintain an equality of days under the Gospel: but this chiefly, viz. that the moral law is not to be a Christians rule of life; for we acknowledge it to be no Covenant of life to a Believer, that either by the keeping of it he should be justified, or that for the breach of it he should be condemned; but they say that when a Believer hath life by the Covenant of grace, the law is now not so much as a rule of life to such a one; and then 'tis no wonder if they who blow out the light of the whole moral law from being a light to their feet and a lamp to their paths, if they hereby utterly extinguish this part of it, viz. the Commandment of the Sabbath: This dashing against the whole law, is the very mystery of this iniquity, why some do cashier this law of the Sabbath: and they do but hide themselves behind a thread, when they oppose it by their weapons, who therefore abandon it, because it alone is ceremonial, above any other law.
But this is not the ordinary principle by which many are ⟨p. 65⟩led to maintaine an equality of dayes under the Gospel: but this chiefely, viz. that the morall law is not to bee a Christians rule of life; for we aknowledge it to be no Covenant of life to a Beleever, that either by the keeping of it he should be justified, or that for the breach of it he should be condemned; but they say that when a Believer hath life by the Covenant of grace, the law is now not so much as a rule of life to such a one; and then 'tis no wonder if they who blow out the light of the whole morall law from being a light to their feet and a lamp to their paths, if they hereby utterly extinguish this part of it, viz. the Commandment of the Sabbath: This dashing against the whole law, is the very mystery of this iniquity, why some doe cashier this law of the Sabbath: and they doe but hide themselves behinde a thread, when they oppose it by their weapons, who therefore abandon it, because it alone is ceremoniall, above any other law.