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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 106.
When the Gospel nakedly urgeth Believers to good §106works and obedience to the Law, it is then considered only as a rule of life, but when we meet with such Scriptures as set the Law and Christ, the Law and grace, the Law and promise, the Law and faith, &c. at opposition one against another, then the Law in such places is ever considered as a Covenant of life, from which we are wholly freed, and unto which we should be wholly dead, that we• may be married unto Christ, Rom. 7.4. hence therefore their arguings are feeble and weak, who would prove a Christian to be wholly free from the directive power of the Law, ⟨p. 90⟩because a Christian is said not to be under the law but under grace, Rom. 6.14. and because the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, John 1.17. and because the inheritance is not by the law, but by promise and by faith, Gal. 3.12.18. for these and such like Scriptures speak of the law as standing in opposition to Christ, and therefore speak of it as of a Covenant of life, by which men seek to be justified: from which (we grant) a Believer is wholly freed, and unto which he is not bound, nay he is bound to renounce it, and cast out this bond-woman, but all this doth not prove that he is free from it as his rule of life.