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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 148.
If Christ came to fulfil and not to destroy the Law, Mat. 5.17. then the Commandment of the Sabbath is not abolished by Christs coming; if not one jot, prick or tittle of the Law shall perish, much less shall a whole Law perish or be destroyed by the coming of Christ.
If Christ came to fulfill and not to destroy the Law, Mat. 5.17. then the Commandement of the Sabbath is not abolished by Christs comming; if not one jot, prick or tittle of the Law shall perish, much lesse shall a whole Law perish or be destroyed by the comming of Christ.
Thesis 149.
'Tis true indeed, that by Law and Prophets is sometimes meant their whole doctrine, both ceremonial, and moral, and prophetical, which Christ fulfilled personally, but not so in this place of Matthew; but by Law is meant the moral Law, and by Prophets those prophetical illustrations and interpretations thereof, in which the Prophets do abound for 1. The Lord Christ speaks of that law only, which whosoever should teach men to break and cast off, he should be least in the Kingdom of Heaven,