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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 163.
Our adversaries therefore dazzled with the clearness of the light shining forth from the text, Gen. 2.2. to wit, that the Sabbath was commanded to be sanctified before the fall, do fly to their shifts and seek for refuge from several answers; sometimes they say 'tis sanctified by way of destination, sometimes they •ell u• of anticipation, sometime they think the Book of Genesis was writ after Exodus, and many such inventions; which because they cannot possibly stand one with another, are therefore more fit to vex and perplex the mind, then to satisfy conscience; and indeed do argue much uncertainty to be in the minds of those that make these and the like answers, a• not knowing certainly what to say, nor where to stand: yet let us examine them.
Our adversaries therefore dazled with the clearnesse of the light shining forth from the text, Gen. 2.2. to wit, that the Sabbath was comman•ed to be sanctified before the fall, do fly to their shifts and seek for refuge from severall answers; sometimes they say 'tis sanctified by way of destination, sometimes they •ell u• of anticipation, sometime they think the Book of Genesis was writ after Exodus, and many such inventions; which because they cannot possibly stand one with another, are therefore more fit to vex and perplex the mind, then to satisfie conscience; and indeed do argue much uncertainty to be in the mindes of those that make these and the like answers, a not knowing certainly what to say, nor where to stand: yet let us examine them.