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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
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Thesis 171.
It is not improbable but that the Sacrifices of Cain and Abel, Gen. 4.3. were upon the Sabbath day, the usual stated time then for such services; for that which our Translation renders, In process of time, the Hebrew calls it, [Greek or Hebrew] i. The end of days; and why may not this be the end of the days of the week (a known division of time, and most famous from the beginning of the world, as Rivet demonstrates out of the best Antiquaries) rather then at the end of the months of the year? But 'tis not good to wrestle with probabilities, of which many are given, which do rather darken then clear up this cause: This only may be added, that suppose the Patriarchs observed no Sabbath from mans fall to Moses time; yet it will not follow that man in innocency was a stranger to it, because man in his apostasy forgot, or did not regard to keep it.
It is not improbable but that the Sacrifices of Cain and Abel, Gen. 4.3. were upon the Sabbath day, the usuall stated time then for such services; for that which our Translation renders, In processe of time, the Hebrew cals it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 i. The end of daies; and why may not this be the end of the daies of the week (a known division of time, and most famous from the beginning of the world, as R•vet demonstrates out of the best Antiquaries) rather then at the end of the moneths of the yeere? But 'tis not good to wrastle with probabilities, of which many are given, which do rather darken then clear up this cause: This only may be added, that suppose the Patriarks observed no Sabbath from mans fall to Moses time; yet it will not follow that man in innocency was a stranger to it, because man in his apostacy forgot, or did not regard to keep it.