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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 135.
Look therefore as 'tis in the second Commandment, although §135the particular instituted worship is changed under the Gospel, from what it was under the Law, yet the general duty required therein of observing Gods own instituted worship is moral and unchangeable: so tis in the fourth Commandment, where though the particular day be changed, yet the duty remains moral and unchangeable in observing a seventh day; there is therefore no reason to imagine that the general duty contained in this precept is not moral, because the observance of the particular day is mutable; and yet this is the fairest colour, but the strongest refuge of lies which their cause hath, who hold a seventh day to be merely ceremonial.
Look therefore as 'tis in the second Commandement, although §135the particular instituted worship is changed under the Gospel, from what it was under the Law, yet the generall duty required therein of observing Gods own instituted worship is morall and unchangeable: so tis in the fourth Commandement, where though the particular day be changed, yet the duty remains morall and unchangeable in observing a seventh day; there is therefore no reason to imagine that the generall duty contained in this precept is not morall, because the observance of the particular day is mutable; and yet this is the fairest colour, but the strongest refuge of lies which their cause hath, who hold a seventh day to be meerly ceremoniall.