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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 144.
Only moral Laws, and all moral Laws, are thus summarily §144and generally honoured by God; the ten Commandments being Christian pandects and common heads of all moral duties toward God and men: Under which generals, all the particular moral duties in the Commentaries of the Prophets and Apostles, are virtually comprehended and contained; and therefore Mr. Primrose's argument is weak, who thinks that this honour put upon the Decalogue doth not argue it to be moral, Because then many other particular moral Laws set down in Scripture, not in Tables of stone, but in parchments of the Prophets and Apostles, should not be moral: For we do not say that all moral Laws particularly were thus specially honoured, but that all and only moral Laws summarily were thus honoured; in which summaries, all the particulars are contained, and in that respect equally honoured: It may affect ones heart with great mourning, to see the many inventions of mens hearts to blot out this remembrance of the Sabbath day; they first cast it out of Paradise, and shut it out of the ⟨p. 143⟩world until Moses time; when in Moses time its published as a Law, and crowned with the same honour as all other moral Laws, yet then they make it to be but a ceremonial Law, continuing only until the coming of Christ; after which time it ceaseth to be any Law at all, unless the Churches constitution shall please to make it so, which is worst of all.
Only morall Laws, and all morall Laws, are thus summarily §144