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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 108.
It is very evident that the children and sons of God §108under the new Testament are not so under the Law as the children and sons of God were under the old Testament, for the Apostle expressly tells, Gal. 3.23. that before the faith came, we (i. the children of the Old Testament) were shut up and kept under the Law, and were under it as under a Schoolmaster, verse 24. and these of whom the Apostle thus speaks are not only wicked and carnal Jews, but the dear children of God and heirs of eternal life in those times, as is evident from Gal. 4 1, 2, 3. but the Apostle speaking of the sons of God in Gospel-times, since faith is come and revealed, speaks as expressly that we are now no longer under the law as under a Schoolmaster, Gal. 3 25. and that now when the fullness of time is come, God sent his son, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons, Gal. 4.3, 4, 5. which though it be true of all men by nature, viz. that ⟨p. 91⟩they are under the law, yet an impartial clear eye will easily discern that the Apostles dispute is not of our being under the Law by nature merely, but of being under the Law by peculiar dispensation, which was the state not only of the Jewish Church, but of the children of God, heirs of the promise (and consequently such as were believers) in this Church, in those old Testament times; we are not therefore now in these new Testament times under the law as they were, the great difficulty therefore remains to know how we are not under the law as they were. Those who say we are not under the Ceremonial law as they were, do speak truly, but they do not resolve the difficulty in this place; for certainly the Apostle speaks, not only of the Ceremonial law, but also of that law which was given because of transgressions,