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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 86.
There is the inward law written on the heart, called the §86law of the Spirit of life, Rom. 8.2. and there is the outward law revealed and written in the holy Scriptures, now the external and outward law is properly the rule of a Christian life, and not the internal and inward law (as some conceive) for to outward law is perfect, in that it perfectly declares what is Gods will and what not; but the inward Law (as received and writ in our hearts) is imperfect in this life, and therefore unfit to be our rule: The inward law is our actual (yet imperfect) conformity to the rule of the law without, it is not therefore the rule it self: The law within is the thing to be ruled, Psal. 17.4. Psalm 119.4.5. The outward law therefore is the rule: The law of the Spirit of life (which is the internal law) ⟨p. 72⟩is called a law, not in respect of perfect direction (which is essential to the rule) but in respect of mighty and effectual operation, there being a power in it as of a strong law effectually and sweetly compelling to the obedience of the law: For as the law of sin within us (which the Apostle calls, the law of our members, and is contrary to the law of our minds, or the law of the spirit of life within us) is not the rule of knowing and judging what sin is, but the law of God without,