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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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2. In respect of the manner and measure of dispensation of the moral law, which although it had the revelation of the Gospel conjoined with it (for Moses writ of Christ, John 5.46. and Abraham had the Gospel preached to him, Gal. 3.8. and the unbelieving Jews had the Gospel preached, Heb. 4.2.) yet the law was revealed and pressed more clearly and strongly, with more rigour and terror, and the Gospel was revealed more obscurely and darkly in respect of the manner of external dispensation of them in those times; there were three things in that manner of dispensation, from which (at least ex parte Dei revelantis) we are now freed.
2. In respect of the manner and measure of dispensation of the morall law, which although it had the revelation of the Gospel conjoyned with it (for Moses writ of Christ, Iohn 5.46. and Abraham had the Gospell preached to him, Gal. 3.8. and the unbeleeving Jewes had the Gospel preached, Heb. 4.2.) yet the law was revealed and pressed more clearely and strongly, with more rigour and terrour, and the Gospel was revealed more obscurely and darkly in respect of the manner of externall dispensation of them in those times; there were three things in that manner of dispensation, from which (at least ex parte Dei revelantis) we are now freed.
1. There was then much law urged, externally, clearly, and little Gospel so clearly revealed, indeed Gospel and Christ Jesus was the end of the moral law and the substance of all the shadows of the ceremonial law, but the external face of these things was scarce any thing else but Doing and Law, by reason of which there is a veil spread over the hearts of the lewes in reading the old Testament unto this day, as is evident