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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 179.
If therefore the Sabbath was given to Adam in innocency §179before all types, nay before the least promise of Christ, whom such types must shadow forth, then it cannot be in its first and native institution typical and ceremonial, but moral: and therefore in it's first and original institution, of which we speak, it did not typify either our rest in Christ from sin in this life, or our rest with God in heaven in another life, or any other imagined rest, which mans wit can easily invent and invest the Sabbath with: but look as our Saviour in reforming the abuses in marriage c•ls us to the first institution; so to know what is perpetual in the Sabbath, it's most safe to have recourse hither; which when it was first observed we see was no way typical, but moral; and if man no way clogged with sin and earth had then need of a Sabbath, have not we much more?
If therefore the Sabbath was given to Adam in innocency §179before all types, nay before the least promise of Christ, whom such types must shadow forth, then it cannot be in its first and native institution typicall and ceremoniall, but morall: and therefore in it's first and originall institution, of which we speak, it did not typifie either our rest in Christ from sinne in this life, or our rest with God in heaven in another life, or any other imagined rest, which mans wit can easily invent and invest the Sabbath with: but look as our Saviour in reforming the abuses in marriage c•ls us to the first institution; so to know what is perpetuall in the Sabbath, it's most safe to have recourse hither; which when it was first observed we see was no way typicall, but morall; and if man no way clogg'd with sin and earth had then need of a Sabbath, have not we much more?