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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 127.
'Tis true that the Sabbath day and that seventh day from §127the creation, are indifferently taken sometimes the one for the other, the one being the exegesis or the explication of the other, as Gen. 2, 2, 3. Exod. 16.29. and elsewhere; but that it should be only so understood in this commandment, Creda• Judaeus Apella—non ego, as he said in another case; I see no convicting argument to clip the wings of the Scripture so short, and to make the Sabbath day and that seventh day of equal dimensions: Although it cannot be denied, but that in some sense the Sabbath day is exegetical of the seventh day, because the commandment hath a special eye to that seventh from the creation, which is secondarily moral, yet not excluding that which is more generally contained in that particular, and consequently commanded, viz. a seventh day or The Sabbath day.
'Tis true that the Sabbath day and that seventh day from §127the creation, are indifferently taken sometimes the one for the other, the one being the exegesis or the explication of the other, as Gen. 2, 2, 3. Exod. 16.29. and elsewhere; but that it should be only so understood in this commandment, Creda• Iudaeus Apella—non ego, as he said in another case; I see no convicting argument to clip the wings of the Scripture so short, and to make the Sabbath day and that seventh day of equall dimensions: Although it cannot be denied, but that in some sense the Sabbath day is exegeticall of the seventh day, because the commandment hath a speciall eye to that seventh from the creation, which is secundarily morall, yet not excluding that which is more generally contained in that particular, and consequently commanded, viz. a seventh day or The Sabbath day.