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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 152.
One would think that the words of the Text, Gen. 2.2, 3. were so plain to prove a Sabbath in that innocent estate, that there could be no evasion made from the evidence of them; for it is expressly said, that the d•y the Lord rested, the same day the Lord blessed and sanctified; but we know he rested the Seventh day immediately after the Creation, and therefore he immediately blessed and sanctified the same day also: for the words run copulatively, he rested the Seventh day, and he blessed and sanctified that day; but its strange to see not only what odd evasions men make from this clear truth, but also what curious Cabalisms and fond interpretations men make of the Hebrew Text, the answer to which learned Rivet hath long since made, which therefore I mention not.
One would thinke that the words of the Text, Gen. 2.2, 3. were so plain to prove a Sabbath in that innocent estate, that there could be no evasion made from the evidence of them; for it is expresly said, that the d•y the Lord rested, the same day the Lord blessed and sanctified; but we know he rested the Seventh day immediatly after the Creation, and therefore he immediately blessed and sanctified the same day also: for the words runne copulatively, he rested the Seventh day, and he blessed and sanctified that day; but its strange to see not only what odde evasions men make from this cleare truth, but also what curious Cabilismes and fond interpretations men make of the Hebrew Text, the answer to which learned Rivet hath long since made, which therefore I mention not.