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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.
1. Because the express words of the Commandment do not run thus, viz. Remember to keep holy That seventh day, but more generally, the Sabbath day; 'tis in the beginning and so 'tis in the end of this Commandment, where it is not said that God blessed That Seventh day, but The Sabbath day, by which expression the wisdom of God, as it points to that particular seventh day that it should be sanctified: so it also opens a door of liberty for change, if God shall see meet, because the substance of the Commandment doth not only contain That seventh day, but The Sabbath day, which may be upon another seventh, as well as upon that which God appointed first: and that the substance of the command is contained in those first words, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, may appear from the repetition of the same Commandment, Deut. 5.12. where these words, As the Lord thy God commanded thee, are immediately inserted before the rest of the words of the Commandment be set down, to show thus much: that therein is contained the substance of the fourth command: the ⟨p. 127⟩words following being added only to press to the duty, and to point out the particular day, which at that time God would have them to observe.
1. Because the expresse words of the Commandment do not run thus, viz. Remember to keep holy That seventh day, but more generally, the Sabbath day; 'tis in the beginning and so 'tis in the end of this Commandment, where it is not said that God blessed That Seventh day, but The Sabbath day, by which expression the wisdom of God, as it points to that particular seventh day that it should be sanctified: so it also opens a door of liberty for change, if God shall see meet, because the substance of the Commandment doth not only contain That seventh day, but The Sabbath day, which may be upon another seventh, as well as upon that which God appointed first: and that the substance of the command is contained in those first words, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, may appeare from the repetition of the same Commandment, Deut. 5.12. where these words, As the Lord thy God commanded thee, are immediately inserted before the rest of the words of the Commandement be set down, to shew thus much: that therein is contained the substance of the fourth command: the