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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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Thesis 126.
Nor will it follow that because a seventh is moral, that §126therefore any one of the seven days in a week may be made a Christian Sabbath: For 1. We do not say that it is any seventh, but A seventh determined and appointed of God for holy rest, which is herein commanded. 2. The Lord hath in wisdom appointed such a seventh as that man may have six whole days together to labour in: and hence it follows that divine determination without crossing that wisdom, could not possibly fall upon any other days in the Cycle of seven, but either upon the last of seven which was the Jewish, or the first of seven which now is (as shall be shown) the Christian Sabbath. 3. As God hath appointed one day in seven for mans rest, so in his wisdom he so orders it, as that it shall be also a day of Gods rest, and that is not to be found in any day of the week, but either in the last of seven, wherein the Father rested, or in the first of seven wherein the Son rested from his work also.
Nor will it follow that because a seventh is morall, that §126therefore any one of the seven daies in a week may be made a Christian Sabbath: For 1. We do not say that it is any seventh, but A seventh determined and appointed of God for holy rest, which is herein commanded. 2. The Lord hath in wisdom appointed such a seventh as that man may have six whole daies together to labour in: and hence it follows that divine determination without crossing that wisdom, could not possibly fall upon any other daies in the Cycle of seven, but either upon the last of seven which was the Jewish, or the first of seven which now is (as shall be shewn) the Christian Sabbath. 3. As God hath appointed one day in seven for mans rest, so in his wisdom he so orders it, as that it shall be also a day of Gods rest, and that is not to be found in any day of the week, but either in the last of seven, wherein the Father rested, or in the first of seven wherein the Son rested from his work also.