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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 176.
'Tis true the Saints and Angels in heaven have no set Sabbath; but doth it therefore follow that the state of innocency on earth, should have been in all things like (and particularly in this) to the sta•e of glory in heaven? No such matter; For should there have been no marriage, no dressing of the garden, no day nor night, &c. in Paradise? because there is no marriage nor dressing of gardens, nor weeks, nor reckonings of day and night in heaven? If God hath work for Adam to do, not only upon the Sabbath, but upon the week days also, why might he not be said to glorify God without stint or ceasing, as the Angels do in heaven, unless M. Primrose will say that Adams marriage and dressing the garden, was a stinting and ceasing from glorifying God; which either he must affirm, or else his argument falls flat upon all four, who thinks that Adam could not have any set day for a Sabbath, because then he should not be like the Saints and Angels in heaven,1 who glorify God continually without stint or ceasing.
'Tis true the Saints and Angels in heaven have no set Sabbath; but doth it therefore follow that the state of innocency on earth, should have been in all things like (and particularly in this) to the sta•e of glory in heaven? No such matter; For should there have been no marriage, no dressing of the garden, no day nor night, &c. in Paradise? because there is no marriage nor dressing of gardens, nor weeks, nor reckonings of day and night in heaven? If God hath work for Adam to do, not only upon the Sabbath, but upon the week daies also, why might he not be said to glorifie God without stint or ceasing, as the Angels do in heaven, unlesse M. Primrose will say that Adams marriage and dressing the garden, was a stinting and ceasing from glorifying God; which either he must affirm, or else his argument fals flat upon all four, who thinks that Adam could not have any set day for a Sabbath, because then he should not be like the Saints and Angels in heaven,