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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 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 *preserved and governed by him, as their utmost end; yet no other inferior visible creature is set so near to God, and consequently is not in that manner for God, as man is.
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 *preserved and governed by him, as their utmost end; yet no other inferiour visible creature is set so near to God, and consequently is not in that manner for God, as man is.
- *Deus qu• principium dat esso qua finis firmat & stabilit esse datum: Gibbe••. de lib. Dei & creat.