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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 162.
'Tis therefore evident that when God is said to sanctify the Sabbath, Gen. 2.2, 3. that man is commanded hereby to sanctify it,1 and dedicate it to the holy use of God: Sanctificare est sanctifica • mandare, saith Junius: And therefore if M Primrose and others desire to know where God commandeth the observation of the Sabbath in Gen. 2.2. they may see it here necessarily implied in the word Sanctify: And therefore if God did sanctify the Sabbath immediately after the creation, he commanded man to sanctify it then; for so the word Sanctified is expressly expounded by the holy Ghost himself, Deut. 5.15. We need not therefore seek for wood among trees, and enquire where and when and upon what ground the Patriarchs before Moses observed a Sabbath, when as it was famously dedicated and sanctified, i. commanded to be sanctified from the first foundation of the world.
'Tis therefore evident that when God is said to sanctifie the Sabbath, Gen. 2.2, 3. that man is commanded hereby to sanctifie it,1 and dedicate it to the holy use of God: Sanctificare est sanctifica • mandare, saith Iunius: And therefore if M Primrose and others desire to know where God commandeth the observation of the Sabbath in