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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.
The general CONTENTS of the Theses concerning the Morality of the Sabbath.
The generall CONTENTS of the Theses concerning the Morality of the Sabbath.
1. GOD is the superior disposer of mans time. Thes. 1 2. Man who is made next to God, and to return to his rest at the end of the larger circle of his life, is to return to him at the end of the lesser circle of eve•y week. Thes. 7 3. What a Moral Law is not. 10, 11 4. How a Divine Law may be said to be Moral 14 5. What a Moral law is strictly taken. 16 6. A Moral Law considered in a strict sense is not good merely because commanded, but is therefore commanded because it is good. 17 7. What is that goodness in a Moral Law for which it is commanded. 21 8. By what Rules may that goodness be known, which are four. 24, 25 9 Divers consectaries flowing from the description of a Moral Law. 1. That Divine determination of something in a Law doth not alway take away the morality of it. 26 2. That those are not Moral laws only, which are known to all men by the light of corrupt nature. 29 3. That the whole Decalogue in all the parts of it is the Moral Law of God: Thes. 30. where Objections are answered to. 38 10. Three sorts of Laws which were among the Jews, Moral, Ceremonial, Judicial. 38 11. The true state of the Question whether the Sabbath be a Moral or Ceremonial Law. 43 12. The agreement on all hands how far the Law of the Sabbath is Moral. 44 ⟨image 15⟩13. Something general is agreed on, and whether it lies under this general, viz. a seventh day. 46 14. The chief means of resolving this controversy in opening the meaning of the fourth Commandment. 47 15. The things which are Moral in the fourth Commandment, are either primarily or secondarily moral. 48 16. Those things which are primarily & generally moral in the forth Commandment, are 3. 1. A time of worship. 2. A day. 3. A 7th day determined. 17. Not the worship it self, but only the solemn time of it is required in the fourth Commandment. 53 18. How holy duties are for time. 56 19. Instituted worship is not directly required in the fourth, but in the second Commandment, wherein the meaning of the second Commandment is occasionally cleared against Wallaeus. 59 20. If the moral worship it self be not required herein, much less is the whole ceremonial worship. 63 21. Neither the public worship only, nor Jewish holy days required in this fourth Commandment 64 22. Not a part of a day, but a whole day is moral by the fourth Commandment. 65 23.