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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 105.
The Apostle Paul as he sometimes condemns works and sometime commends them, so he sometimes rejects the Law,§105 and sometimes commends the Law, sometime he would have Believers dye to the law, and sometime he exhorts them to live in all holy obedience to it; the Apostle therefore must speak of the Law under various considerations, or else must speak Daggers and flat contradictions, and therefore of necessity we are to consider the Law not alway under one respect, but variously; for consider the law as a Covenant of works, or as the way unto or matter of our justification, and so works are condemned and the Law is rejected and abrogated, and so we are to die to the Law, but consider the Law as a rule of life to a person justified already, and so the Law is to be received, and works are to be commended, and we are to live thereunto.
The Apostle Paul as he sometimes condemnes works and sometime commends them, so he sometimes rejects the Law,§105 and sometimes commends the Law, sometime hee would have Beleevers dye to the law, and sometime hee exhorts them to live in all holy obedience to it; the Apostle therefore must speak of the Law under various considerations, or else must speake Daggers and flat contradictions, and therefore of necessity wee are to consider the Law not alway under one respect, but variously; for consider the law as a Covenant of workes, or as the way unto or matter of our justification, and so works are condemned and the Law is rejected and abrogated, and so we are to die to the Law, but consider the Law as a rule of life to a person justified already, and so the Law is to be received, and works are to bee commended, and we are to live thereunto.