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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.
yet as it is revealed with reference to Christ, and a people in Christ, so every Commandment doth spirare amorem (as he speaks) and breaths out Christs love, for which the Saints cannot but bless the Lord with everlasting wonderment that ever he made them to know these heart-secrets of his good will and love, especially then when he writes them in their hearts, and thereby gives unto them the comfort thereof. And verily if it be such a sweet voice of love to call us in to this Rest of the day, certainly if ever the English Nation be deprived of these seasons (which God in mercy forbid) it will be a black appearance ⟨image 12⟩of God against them in the days of their distress, when he shall seem to shut them out of his Rest in his bosom by depriving them of the Rest of this day. What will ye do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord? For lo they are gone because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them, their silver shall be desired, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their Tabernacles; the days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it; the Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. Hos. 9.5, 6, 7. But let men yet make much of Gods Sabbaths, and begin here; and if it be too tedious to draw near to God every day, let them but make conscience of trying and tasting how good the Lord is but this one day in a week, and the Lord will yet reserve mercy for his people, Jer. 17, 24, 25.26. for keep this, keep all; lose this, lose all: which lest I should seem to plead for out of a frothy and groundless affection to the Day, and lest any in these times should be worse then the Crane and the Swallow who know their times of return, I have therefore endeavoured to clear up those four great difficulties about this Day in the Theses here following.
yet as it is revealed with reference to Christ, and a people in Christ, so every Commandment doth spirare amorem (as he speaks) and breaths out Christs love, for which the Saints cannot but blesse the Lord with everlasting wonderment that ever he made them to know these heart-secrets of his good will and love, especially then when he writes them in their hearts, and thereby gives unto them the comfort thereof. And verily if it be such a sweet voice of love to call us in to this Rest of the day, certainly if ever the Enlish Nation be deprived of these seasons (which God in mercy forbid) it will be a black appearance