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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.
PART. I. The Morality of the Sabbath. Wherein the chief Arguments used by Gomarus, Mr. Primrose, Mr. Ironside, Mr. Broad, with sundry others against it, are briefly answered, the reasons for it more fully cleared: Wherein also the great Controversy, whether the whole Moral Law contained in the Decalogue be a Rule of life to a Believer, is occasionally and distinctly handled.
PART. I. The Morality of the Sabbath. Wherin the chief Arguments used by Gomarus, Mr. Primrose, Mr. Ironside, Mr. Broad, with sundry others against it, are briefly answered, the reasons for it more fully cleared: Wherein also the great Controversie, whether the whole Moral Law contained in the Decalogue be a Rule of life to a Beleever, is occasionally and distinctly handled.
THE MORALITY OF THE SABBATH.
Thesis 1.
Time is one of the most precious blessings,§1 which worthless man in this world enjoys, a jewel of inestimable worth, a golden stream dissolving, and as it were, continually running down by us, out of one eternity into another; yet seldom taken notice of until it is quite passed away from us; Man (saith Solomon) knows not his time,