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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 134.
There is no strength in that reason, that because one day §134in seven is to be consecrated unto God,1 that therefore one year in seven is to be so also, as of old it was among the Jew•• for beside what hath been said formerly, viz. that one year in seven was merely ceremonial, one day in seven is not so (saith Wallaeus) but moral; God gave no example (whose example is only in moral things) of resting one year in seven, but he did of resting one day in seven. I say, beside all this, it is observable what Junius notes herein, The Lord (saith he) challengeth one day in seven jure creationis, by right of creation; and hence requires it of all men created: but he challenged one year in seven, jure peculiaris possessionis, i. by right of peculiar possession, the Land of Canaan being the Lords land in a peculiar manner, even a type of Heaven, which every other Country is not; and therefore there is no reason that all men should give God one seventh year, as they are to give him one seventh day: By the observation of one day in seven (saith he) men profess themselves to be the Lords, and to belong unto him, who created and made them; and this profession all men are bound unto: but by observation of one year in seven, they professed thereby that their Country was the Lords, and themselves the Lords Tenants therein, which all Countries (not being types of Heaven) cannot nor ought to do; and therefore there is not the like reason urged to the observation of a seventh year, as of a seventh day.
There is no strength in that reason, that because one day §134in seven is to be consecrated unto God,