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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 93.
The fundamental error of Antinomians ariseth from this, in imagining the great difference between the law and Gospel to be this, viz. That the law requires doing, but the Gospel no doing, and that all believers being under the Gospel are therefore under no law of doing: but we must know that as the Gospel exacts no doing that thereby we may be just, so it requires doing also when by Christ Jesus we are made just: For if the Gospel command us to be holy as God is holy, 1 Pet. 1.15. and perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, Matth. 5.48. then the Gospel doth not only require doing, but also as much perfection of doing as the Law doth; the Law and the Gospel require the same perfection of holiness, only here is the difference (which many have not observed) the Gospel doth not urge this perfection nor require it of us as the Law doth; for the law calling and urging of it that so hereby we may be made just, it therefore accepts of nothing but perfection, but the Gospel requiring it because we are perfectly just already in Christ, hence though it commands as much as the Law, yet it accepts of less, even the least measure of sincerity and perfection mixed with the greatest measure of imperfection.
The fundamentall errour of Antinomians ariseth from this, in imagining the great difference between the law and Gospell to be this, viz. That the law requires doing, but the Gospel no doing, and that all beleevers being under the Gospell are therefore under no law of doing: but wee must know that as the Gospell exacts no doing that thereby we may be just, so it requires doing also when by Christ Iesus we are made just: For if the Gospell command us to be holy as God is holy,