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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 143.
Nor do I say that the writing of the law on stone argues it §143to be moral (for some laws not moral were mediately writ on ⟨p. 142⟩stone by Joshua, Josh. 8.32.) but because it was writ immediately by the finger of God on such Tables of stone, and that not once but twice; not on paper or parchment, but on stone, which argues their continuance; and not on stone in open fields, but on such stone as was laid up in the Ark, a place of most safety, being most sacred, and a type of Christ who kept this law, and upon whose heart it was writ, Psal. 40.6, 7. to satisfy justice, and to make just and righteous before God, all that shall be saved, of all whom the righteousness of this Law, according to justice was to be exacted; what do these things argue, but at least thus much, that if any Law was to be perpetuated, this surely ought so to be? Mr. Primrose tells us, that the writing upon stone did not signify continuance of the Law, but the hardness of their stony hearts, which the Law writ upon them was not able to overcome; and tis true that the stony Tables did signify stony hearts, but its false that the writing on stone did not signify continuance also, according to Scripture phrase: For all the children of God have stony hearts by nature; now God hath promised to write his Law upon such hearts as are by nature stony, and his writing of them there implies the continuance of them there; so that both these may stand together, and the similitude is fully thus, viz. The whole Law of God was writ on Tables of stone, to continue there: so the whole Law of God is writ on stony hearts by nature to continue thereon.