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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 173.
If Adams fall was before the Sabbath (as Mr. Broad and some §173others otherwise orthodox in this point of the Sabbath, conceive, by too much inconsiderate wresting of Psal. 49.12. John 8.44.) yet it will not hence follow that he had no such command in innocency to observe the Sabbath before his fall: For whether man had fallen or no, yet the thing it self speaks that God was determined to work six days in making the world, and to rest and so to sanctify the seventh, that he might therein be exemplary to man; and consequently God would have given this law, and it should have been a rule to him whether he fell or no; and indeed the seventh days rest depends no more upon mans fall, then the six days work of creation, which we see were all finished before the fall; the seventh days holiness being more suitable to that state then the six days labour, to which we see he was appointed, if Gods example had any force to direct and lead him thereunto. Again, if the law of labour was writ upon his heart before he was actually called forth to labour, viz. To dress and keep the garden, Gen. 2.15. why might not also the law of holy rest be revealed unto him by God, and so answerably writ upon his heart before he fell, or came actually to rest upon the Sabbath? Little of Adams universal obedience to the Law of works, was as yet actual while he remained innocent; and yet all his obedience in time to come was writ upon his heart the first moment of his creation in the Image of God, as it were aforehand, and why might not thi• Law of the Sabbath be writ so aforehand?1 And therefore M. Broad need not trouble himself or others in enquiring whether God sanctified the Sabbath before or after the first seventh day wherein God rested; and if before it, how Adam could know of the Sabbath before Gods complete rest upon the first