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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 165.
M. Ironside confesseth, That Gods resting and sanctifying the §165Sabbath, 1are ••etaneous, and acknowledgeth the connection of them together at the same time, by the c•pulative And, and that as God actually rested, so he actually sanctified the day: but this sanctification which he means is nothing else but destination, or Gods purpose and intention to sanctify •t afterward: so that in effect this evasion amounts to thus much, viz. that God did actually purpose to sanctify it, about 2500. years after the giving of the Law, but yet did not actually sanctify it, and if this be the meaning, it is all one as if he had said in plain terms, viz. that when God is said to sanctify the Sabbath, he did not indeed sanctify it, only he purposed so to do, and although M. Primrose and himself tells us that the word sanctify signifies in the Original some time to prepare and ordain: so it may be said that the word signifies sometimes to publish and proclaim: if they say that this latter cannot be the meaning, because we read not in Scripture of any such proclamation that this should be the Sabbath, the like may be said (upon the reasons mentioned) concerning their destination of it thereunto: Again, if to sanctify the day be only to purpose and ordain to sanctify it, then the Sabbath was no more sanctified since the Creation, then ab aeterno, and before the world began, for then God did purpose that it should be sanctified: but this sanctification here spoken of seems to follow Gods