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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 151.
If the observation of the Sabbath had been first imposed upon man since the fall, and in special upon the people of the Jews at mount Sinai, there might be then some colour and reason to clothe the Sabbath with rags, and the worn-out garments of ceremonialnesse: but if it was imposed upon man in innocency not only before all types and ceremonies, but also before all sin: and upon Adam as a common person, as a Commandment not proper to that estate, nor as to a particular person and proper to himself: then the morality of it is most evident; our adversaries therefore lay about them here, that they might drive the Sabbath out of Paradise, and make it a thing altogether unknown to the state of innocency: which if they cannot make good, their whole frame against the morality of the Sabbath, falls flat to the ground; and therefore it is of no small consequence to clear up this truth, viz. That Adam in innocency, and in him all his posterity were commanded to sanctify a weekly Sabbath.
If the observation of the Sabbath had been first imposed upon man since the fall, and in speciall upon the people of the Jews at mount Sinai, there might be then some colour and reason to cloath the Sabbath with rags, and the worn-out garments of ceremonialnesse: but if it was imposed upon man in innocency not only before all types and ceremonies, but also before all sin: and upon Adam as a common person, as a Commandement not proper to that estate, nor as to a particular person and proper to himselfe: then the morality of it is most evident; our adversaries therefore lay about them here, that they might drive the Sabbath out of Paradise, and make it a thing altogether unknown to the state of innocency: which if they cannot make good, their whole frame against the morality of the Sabbath, fals flat to the ground; and therefore it is of no small consequence to clear up this truth, viz. That Adam in innocency, and in him all his posterity were commanded to sanctifie a weekly Sabbath.