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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 181.
There are sundry Scriptures alleged to prove the Sabbath to be typical and ceremonial, out of the old and new Testament, as Isa. 66.23. Gal, 4.10. Rom. 14.4, 5. Col. 2.16. but if we suppose that these places be meant of the weekly Sabbath (which some deny) and rigidly urge them, we may quickly press blood instead of milk out of them, and wholly abolish (as Wallaeus well observes) the observation of any Christian Sabbath: but this one consideration of a type affixed to it to make it so far forth ceremonial, and therefore alterable, which for substance is moral, may be as a right thread to lead us into a way of truth in this great controversy, and to untie many knots, which I see not how possibly they can be otherwise unloosed, and therefore we may safely say, that that Seventh day is abolished, because it hath a type affixed to it; but that a Seventh days Sabbath is still continued wherein there is no type at all.
There are sundry Scriptures alledged to prove the Sabbath to be typicall and ceremoniall, out of the old and new Testament, as Isa. 66.23. Gal, 4.10. Rom. 14.4, 5. Col. 2.16. but if we suppose that these places be meant of the weekly Sabbath (which some deny) and rigidly urge them, we may quickly presse blood instead of milke out of them, and wholy abolsh (as Wallaeus well observes) the observation of any Christian Sabbath: but this one consideration of a type affixed to it to make it so far forth ceremoniall, and therefore alteble, which for substance is morall, may be as a right thed to lead us into a way of truth in this great contoversie, and to untie many knots, which I see not how possibly they can be otherwise unloosed, and therefore we may safely say, that that Seventh day is abolished, because it hath a type affixed to it; but that a Seventh daies Sabbath is still continued wherein there is no type at all.