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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 5.
For whatever is set next, and as it were contiguous to e•ternall, §5is eternal; Omne contiguum ae•erno spirituali est a•ternum (say some) and hence it is that the soul is eternal because it is made nextly for God, and as it were contiguous to him. The body also shall be eternal, because contiguous to the eternal soul: But no other inferior Creatures are thus eternal: For although they b• made nextly for man, yet so, as that they are firstly for th• body, which is of it self mortal, and not eternal, an• therefore not being contiguous to that which is spirituall• eternal, are not so themselves▪ and the reason of this i• because all inferior Creatures, as they come out from God, so their motion is toward man, for whom they a•• nextly made,1 and they go out strait forward from God as it were in a strait line toward man, to the last end an• term of which strait line when they are come, in the service of man, they then cannot proceed any further, and d• therefore perish and cease to be, without reflecting, or returning back again immediately unto God. But ma• being made immediately and nextly for God, hath therefore his motion so toward God, as that he returns immediately unto him again, and is not led in a strait line, but led ([…] it were) about in a circular motion, and hence returning immediately to him, he is hereby eternally preserved i him, for whom he is immediately made, and unto whom h is nextly contiguous, as hath been said.