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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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and if a man be not condemned for sin before he believe, then he is not a sinner before he believe, for look as Christ hath taken away any mans condemnation in his death, just so hath he taken away his sin. 3. Or else by the witness and testimony of Gods spirit: but this is flat contrary to what the Apostle speaks, Gal. 3.26. with 4 6. ye are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and because ye are sons (not sinners) he hath sent the spirit of his son crying, Abba, Father, Gal. 4.4, 5, 6, and verily if the love of God belong to sinners as sinners, then all sinners shall certainly be saved (for a quatenus ad omne val•• consequentia) so that by this principle, as sin hath abounded actually to condemn all, so grace hath abounded actually to save all, which is most pernicious: nor do I know what should make men embrace *this principle, unless that they either secretly think that the strait gate and narrow way to life is now so wide and broad, that all men shall in Gospel times enter in thereat, which is prodigious, or else they must imagine some Arminian universal Redemption and reconciliation, and so put all men in a salvable and reconciled estate (such as it is) before faith, and then the evidence and ground of their assurance must be built on this false and crazy foundation, viz. Jesus Christ had died to reconcile (and so hath reconciled) all sinners.
and if a man be not condemned for sin before he beleeve, then he is not a sinner before he beleeve, for look as Christ hath taken away any mans condemnation in his death, just so hath he taken away his sin. 3. Or else by the witnesse and testimony of Gods spirit: but this is flat contrary to what the Apostle speaks, Gal. 3.26. with 4 6. ye are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Iesus, and because ye are sons (not sinners) he hath sent the spirit of his son crying, Abba, Father, Gal. 4.4, 5, 6, and verily if the love of God belong to sinners as sinners, then all sinners shall certainly be saved (for a quatenus ad omne val consequentia) so that by this principle, as sinne hath abounded actually to condemn all, so grace hath abounded actually to save all, which is most pernicious: nor do I know what should make men embrace