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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 preaching the truth be an old Testament ⟨p. 117⟩Ministry, no wise man then I hope will desire the new wine, for the old is better: while the Lion sleeps and God is silent, and conscience slumbers, all the beasts and wild sinners of the world (and many preachers too) may think that there is no terror in God, no curse, or wrath upon themselves in the midst of the rage, increase, and power of all their sins; but when this lion roars, and God awakens, and conscience looks above head, they shall then see how miserably they have been deceived, they may slight sin, abolish condemnation, talk of and wonder at free-grace now, and believe easily, because they are sinners, but certainly they shall be otherwise minded then: Some men may have good ends in preaching Gods free-grace after this manner in the Gospel, and make the Gospel a revelation of Gods actual love to sinners as sinners; and make a Christians evidence of it nothing else but the sight of his sin, and of his being under the power of it, but little do they think what Satan the father of this false doctrine aims at, which are these four things chiefly.
and if preaching the truth be an old Testament ⟨p. 117⟩Ministry, no wise man then I hope will desire the new wine, for the old is better: while the Lion sleeps and God is silent, and conscience slumbers, all the beasts and wilde sinners of the world (and many preachers too) may think that there is no terrour in God, no curse, or wrath upon themselves in the midst of the rage, increase, and power of all their sins; but when this lion roars, and God awakens, and conscience looks above head, they shall then see how miserably they have been deceived, they may slight sin, abolish condemnation, talk of and wonder at free-grace now, and beleeve easily, because they are sinners, but certainly they shall be otherwise minded then: Some men may have good ends in preaching Gods free-grace after this manner in the Gospel, and make the Gospel a revelation of Gods actuall love to sinners as sinners; and make a Christians evidence of it nothing else but the sight of his sin, and of his being under the power of it, but little do they think what Satan the father of this false doctrine aims at, which are these four things chiefly.