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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 7.
Look therefore as when man hath run his race, finished §7his course, and passed through the bigger and larger circle of his life, he then returns unto his eternal rest; so it […] contrived and ordered by divine wisdom, as that he shall •n a special manner return unto and into his rest once •t least within the lesser and smaller circle of every week, •hat so his perfect blessedness to come might be foretasted every Sabbath day, and so be begun here: that look as man standing in innocency, had cause thus to return •rom the pleasant labours of his weekly paradise employments, (as shall be shown in due place) so man fallen, much more from his toilsome and wearisome labours, to this his rest again: And therefore, as because all creatures were made for man, man was therefore made in the last place after them; so man being made for God and his worship, thence it is that the Sabbath (wherein man was to draw most near unto God) was appointed after the creation of man, as *Peter Martyr observes: For although man is not made for the Sabbath merely in respect of the outward rest of it, as the Pharisees dreamed, yet he is made for the Sabbath in respect of God in it, and the holiness of it, to both which then the soul is to have its weekly revolution back again, as into that Rest, which is the end of all our lives, labour, and in special of all our weekly labour and work.