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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 2.
He who is the disposer of all our times, is the sovereign §2Lord of our persons also, and is therefore the utmost and last end of both: for if our persons and all our times be of him, they are then to be improved for him, as he sees most mere.
He who is the disposer of all our times, is the soveraigne §2Lord of our persons also, and is therefore the utmost and last end of both: for if our persons and all our times bee of him, they are then to be improved for him, as he sees most meer.
Thesis 3.
Now although all creatures in the world, are of God,§3 and for God, so that being of him, they receive their being from him as their first efficient, and being for him, are therefore *