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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As if this old world did need no Noah to foretell them of floods of fire and wrath to come: Or as if the men of Sodom and Princes of Gomorrah, should do well to mock at Lot for bidding him to hasten out of the city, because God would destroy it: As if the spirit of Paul in these times should not know the terror of the Lord, and therefore persuade men, 2 Cor. 5.10.11. but only the love and free-grace of the Lord Jesus, and therefore to exhort men, nay rather therefore to relate to men stories and notions about •ree-grace, general redemption, the mystery of the Fathers love, and the Christ in you and in the spirit (not the person of Christ or Christ in the flesh) the hope of glory: What will the Lord Jesus one day say to these sleepy watchmen, that never tell the secure world of their enemies at the door? I find divers colours and pretences for this course of daubing.
As if this old world did need no Noah to fortell them of flouds of fire and wrath to come: Or as if the men of Sodom and Princes of Gomorah, should do well to mock at Lot for bidding him to hasten out of the city, because God would destroy it: As if the spirit of Paul in these times should not know the terrour of the Lord, and therefore perswade men, 2 Cor. 5.10.11. but only the love and free-grace of the Lord Jesus, and therefore to exhort men, nay rather therefore to relate to men stories and notions about •ree-grace, generall redemption, the mystery of the Fathers love, and the Christ in you and in the spirit (not the person of Christ or Christ in the flesh) the hope of glory: What will the Lord Jesus one day say to these sleepy watchmen, that never tell the secure world of their enemies at the door? I finde divers colours and pretences for this course of daubing.
1. Some say this savours of an old Testament spirit, which was wnt to wound and then to heal, to humble and then to raise, to preach law and then Gospel; but now we are to he Ministers of the new Testament; and let no law be heard of. I confess those that preach the law as the means of our justification, and as the matter of our righteousness without Christ, or together with Christ, as the false teachers did,