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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 82.
The blood of Christ was never shed to destroy all sense of sin and sight of sin in Believers, and consequently all attendance to any rule of the law, by which means chiefly sin comes to be seen: but he dyed rather to make them sensible of sin, for if he dyed to save men from sin (as is evident, 1 John 3.5. Tit. 3.14.) then he dyed to make his people sensible of sin, because hereby his peoples hearts are chiefly weaned and severed from it and saved out of it (as by hardness and unsensiblenesse of heart under it, they chiefly cleave to it and it to them) and therefore we know that godly sorrow works repentance, never to be repented of, 2 Cor. 7.10. And that Pharaoh's hardness of heart strengthened him in his sin against God unto the last gasp, and hence it is also that the deepest and greatest spirit of mourning for sin is poured out upon Believers, after God hath poured out upon them the spirit of grace, as is evident, Zach. 12.10, 11. because the blood of Christ which was shed for the killing of their sin, now makes them sensible of their sin, because it's now sprinkled and applied to them, which it was not before, for they now see all their sins aggravated, being now not only sins against the law of God, but against the blood and love of the Son of God: It is therefore a most accursed doctrine of some Libertines, who imagining that (through the bloodshed and righteousness of Christ in their free justification) God sees no sin in his justified people, that therefore