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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.
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, Eccles. 9.12. It is therefore most just and meet, that he who hath the disposing of all other things less precious and momentous, should also be the supreme Lord and disposer of all our times.
TIme is one of the most precious blessings,§1 which worthlesse man in this world enjoyes, a jewell of inestimable worth, a golden stream dissolving, and as it were, continually running downe by us, out of one eternity into another; yet seldome taken notice of untill it is quite passed away from us; Man (saith Solomon) knowes not his time, Eccles. 9.12. It is therefore most just and meet, that he who hath the disposing of all other things lesse precious and momentous, should also be the supreme Lord and disposer of all our times.