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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.
Gods wisdom did rather choose a whole day together for special worship then borrow a part of every day. 66 24. The sin of Familists and others who allow God no special day, but make all days equal. 68 25. How any day is said to be holy, and that though all places are alike holy, yet all days are not therefore alike holy. 69, 70 26. Answer to such Scriptures as seem to make all days alike holy under the New Testament. 72, 73. to 79 27. The chief reason why some abolish the day of the Sabbath in the fourth Commandment, is because they abandon the whole Decalogue it self as any Rule of life unto his people. 79 28. An inward Sabbath may well consist with a Sabbath day. 80 29. The great controversy whether the Law be a rule of life to a believer, discussed in sundry Theses. 81 30. The Spirit is not the rule of life. 86 31. Not the will of Gods Decree, but the will of his command is the rule of life. 91 ⟨image 16⟩32. The fundamental Error of Antinomians. 93 33. The rule of the Law is kept in Christ as matter of our justification, not sanctification. 94 34. How Christ is our Sanctification as well as our Justification. 95 35. Duties of Christian thankfulness to God were not performed by Christ for believers under that notion of thankfulness, but by way of merit. 97 36. Whether a believer is to act in virtue of a command. 98 37. The sin of those who affirm that Christian obedience is not to be put forth by virtue of a command. 100 38. To act by virtue of a Commandment, and by virtue of Gods Spirit, are subordinate one to another. 101 39. Whether the Law is our rule as given by Moses on mount Sinai, or only as it is given by Christ on mount Zion. 102 40. How Works and Law-duties are sometime commended and sometime condemned 105, 106 41. The new creature how it is under the Law. 107 42. How the children of God under the Old Testament were under the Law as a Schoolmaster, and not those of the New. 108 43. How the Gospel requires doing, and how not, and about conditional promises in the Gospel. 110 44. Various motives to obedience from the Law and Gospel, from God as a Creator, and from Christ as a Redeemer, do not vary the Rule. 111 45. Unbelief is not the only sin. 112 46. Three evils arising from their Doctrine who deny the Directive use of the moral Law. 113 47. The sin of such as deny the humbling work of the Law under Gospel ministrations. 114 48.
Gods wisdome did rather choose a whole day together for special worship then borrow a part of every day. 66 24. The sin of Familists and others who allow God no special day, but make all dayes equal. 68 25. How any day is said to be holy, and that though all places are alike holy, yet all dayes are not therefore alike holy. 69, 70 26. Answer to such Scriptures as seem to make all dayes alike holy under the New Testament. 72, 73. to 79 27. The chief reason why some abolish the day of the Sabbath in the fourth Commandment, is because they abandon the whole Decalogue it self as any Rule of life unto his people. 79 28. An inward Sabbath may well consist with a Sabbath day. 80 29. The great controversie whether the Law be a rule of life to a beleever, discussed in sundry Theses. 81 30. The Spirit is not the rule of life. 86 31. Not the will of Gods Decree, but the will of his command is the rule of life. 91