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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 6.
Now although in this return of man to God, (supposing it to be internal, regular and spiritual) mans blesse• being once lost is hereby recovered and preserved in God yet when man is left unto himself, the motions of his soul out of this circle, in straying from God, are innumerable and would be endless, if God who set him next unto him self, did not some time or other, recall, return, and ⟨p. 3⟩•ead him back again (as it were in a heavenly circle) into himself.
Now although in this returne of man to God, (suppo•sing it to be internall, regular and spirituall) mans blesse• being once lost is hereby recovered and preserved in God yet when man is left unto himselfe, the motions of his soul out of this circle, in straying from God, are innumerable and would be endlesse, if God who set him next unto him selfe, did not some time or other, recall, returne, and ⟨p. 3⟩•ead him back again (as it were in a heavenly circle) into himself.