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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 4.
For although all inferior creatures are made lastly for ⟨p. 2⟩§4§4God, yet they are made nextly for man; but man having nothing better than himself, between him and God, therefore made, both lastly and nextly for God, and hence is, that no inferior Creature, which comes out and issu•eth from God, hath such a reflux and return again bac• unto God, as man hath; because, in and by this reflux an• return into him, mans immortal being is eternally preserved, like water running into the Sea again, from whence it first came.
For although all inferiour creatures are made lastly for ⟨p. 2⟩§4§4God, yet they are made nextly for man; but man havin• nothing better than himselfe, between him and God, therefore made, both lastly and nextly for God, and hence is, that no inferiour Creature, which comes out and issu•eth from God, hath such a reflux and returne againe bac• unto God, as man hath; because, in and by this reflux an• returne into him, mans immortall being is eternally preserved, like water running into the Sea againe, from whence it first came.