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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 153.
The words are not thus copulative in order of story, but in order of time; I say not in order of story and discourse; for so things far distant in time, may •e coupled together by this copulative particle And, as Mr. Primrose truly shows, Exod. 16.32, 33. 1 Sam. 17.54. but they are coupled and knit together in respect of time; for it is the like phrase which Moses immediately after useth, Gen. 5.1, 2. where tis said, God created man in his Image, and blessed them, and called their names, &c. ⟨p. 149⟩which were together in time; so tis here, the time God rested, that time God blessed; for the scope of the words, Gen 2.1, 2, 3. is to show what the Lord did that seventh day, after the finishing of the whole creation in six days, and that is, He blessed and sanctified it. For look as the scope of Moses in making mention of the six days orderly, was to show what God did every particular day; so what else should be the scope in making mention of the seventh day, unless it was to show what God did then on that day? and that is, he then rested, and blessed and sanctified it, even then in that state of innocency.
The words are not thus copulative in order of story, but in order of time; I say not in order of story and discourse; for so things far distant in time, may e coupled together by this copulative particle And, as Mr. Primrose truly shews,