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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 169.
If Adam had stood, all mankind might, and perhaps should have observed that particular seventh day for ever on earth: but look as Adam observed it not merely because it was That Seventh (as hath been shown) which was but secondarily and as it were accidentally moral: but because it was the Seventh day appointed of God, which is firstly and primarily moral: so although we now do not observe that Seventh day which Adam did, yet the substance of the morality of this command given unto him is observed still by us, in observing the Seventh day which God hath appointed, to which the equity of this command binds generally all mankind: hence therefore it is of little force which some object, that if the Commandment to man in innocency be moral, that then we are bound to observe the same Seventh day, which Adam in innocency did: this is oft laid in our dish; but the answer is easy from what hath been said.
If Adam had stood, all mankinde might, and perhaps should have observed that particular seventh day for ever on earth: but look as Adam observed it not meerly because it was That Seventh (as hath been shewn) which was but secundarily and as it were accidentally morall: but because it was the Seventh day appointed of God, which is firstly and primarily morall: so although we now do not observe that Seventh day which Adam did, yet the substance of the morality of this command given unto him is observed still by us, in observing the Seventh day which God hath appointed, to which the equity of this command bindes generally all mankinde: hence therefore it is of little force which some object, that if the Commandment to man in innocency be morall, that then we are bound to observe the same Seventh day, which Adam in innocency did: this is oft laid in our dish; but the answer is easie from what hath been said.