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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 103.
The law therefore which contains in it self absolutely §103considered (which Luther calls Moses Mosissimus) the Covenant of works, yet relatively considered as it was delivered by Moses to a people under a Covenant of grace (which the same Author calls Moses Aaronicus) so it is not to be considered only as a Covenant of works, and therefore for any to affirm that the law is no Covenant of works, as it is delivered on Mount Zion, and by Jesus Christ, and that it is a Covenant of works only, as it is delivered on Mount Sinai and by Moses, is a bold assertion both unsafe and unsound: For if as it was delivered on Mount Sinai, it was delivered to a people under a Covenant of grace, then it was not delivered to them only as a Covenant of works, for then a people under a Covenant of grace, may again come under a Covenant of works, to disannul that Covenant of grace, but the Apostle expressly affirms the quite contrary, and shows that the Covenant made with Abraham and his seed (which was to be a God to them, Gen. 17.7.) and which was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after▪ cannot disannul, Gal. 3.17. Now that the people were under a Covenant of grace when the law was delivered on Mount Sinai, let the Preface of the ten Commandments determine, wherein Gods first words are words of grace, I am the Lord thy God, &c. and therefore thou shalt have no other Gods but me, &c. I know Paraeus, Zanchy and others affirm, that the law is abrogated as it was in the hands of Moses, but not as it is in