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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.
1. Concerning the Morality. 2. The Change. 3. The Beginning. 4. The Sanctification of the Sabbath.
Being fully persuaded that whosoever shall break one of the least Commandments, and teach men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of God. I do therefore desire the Reader to take ⟨image 13⟩along with him these two things.
Being fully perswaded that whosoever shall break one of the least Commandements, and teach men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of God. I do therefore desire the Reader to take ⟨image 13⟩along with him these two things.
1. Suspending his judgment concerning the truth and validity of any part or of any particular Thesis, until he hath read over the whole; for they have a dependence one upon another for mutual clearing of one another; and lest I should bis coctum apponere, and say the same thing twice, I have therefore purposely left out that in one part, and one Thesis which is to be cleared in another, either for proof of it, or resolution of objections against it; and although this dependence may not so easily appear (because I have not so expressly set down the method) yet the wise-hearted I hope will easily find it out, or else pick out and accept what they see to be of God, in such a confused heap; for it was enough to my ends if I might lay in any broken pieces of timber to forward this building, which those that are able to wade deeper into this controversy, may please to make use of (if there be any thing in them, or in any of them) in their own better and more orderly frame; for it hath been, and still is my earnest desire to heaven that God would raise up some or other of his precious servants to clear up these controversies more fully then yet they have been, that the zeal for Gods Sabbaths may not be fire without light, which perhaps hath hitherto been too little through the wickedness of former times, encouraging the books one way, and suppressing those of most weight and worth, for the other.