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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 174.
If the Scriptures may be judge of the time of mans fall (which yet is not momentous to cast the balance either way in this controversy) it will be found that neither Angels nor men did fall the sixth day before the Sabbath; for then God looked upon all his works, and they were very good, Gen. 1.31. and therefore could not as yet be bad and evil by any sin or fall; and now because it's more then probable that if Adam had completely sanctified and stood one Sabbath, he had stood immutably, as I think might be demonstrated; he therefore not standing a whole seventh day, for then he could not have fallen, and yet not being fallen the sixth day, he therefore fell upon the Sabbath day, that as the breach of every other command was wrapped up in that first sin, so this of the Sabbath. The objections against this from John 8.44. that Satan was a murderer from the beginning, and from Psal. 49.12. that man in honour did not [Greek or Hebrew] or abide one night in that estate, with some other conjectural reasons taken from some of the Schoolmens Obs and Sols are easily answered by a serious and sober mind, and therefore I leave them.
If the Scriptures may be judge of the time of mans fall (which yet is not momentous to cast the balance either way in this controversie) it will be found that neither Angels nor men did fall the sixt day before the Sabbath; for then God looked upon all his works, and they were very good, Gen. 1.31. and therefore could not as yet be bad and evill by any sin or fall; and now because it's more then probable that if Adam had compleatly sanctified and stood one Sabbath, he had stood immutably, as I think might be demonstrated; he therefoe not standing a whole seventh day, for then he could not have fallen, and yet not being fallen the sixt day, he therefore fell upon the Sabbath day, that as the breach of every other command was wrapt up in that first sin, so this of the Sabbath. The objections against this from