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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 184.
The Sabbath being no visible sign of invisible grace, it §184cannot therefore be any Sacramental sign or typical, tis therefore an indicant and declarative sign of our communion with God, and God with us, of our interest in him, and of his in us: and therefore in those places, Exod. 13.31. and Ezek. 20.20. where tis called a sign, it is not made a sign simply and nakedly considered in it self (as all Sacramental and typical signs be) but it is so called in respect of our keeping of it, or as it is observed and kept; and therefore it runs in way of promise, Ezek. 20.20. If ye hallow my Sabbaths they shall then be a sign between me and you, and you shall know (hereby) that I am the Lord your God; and although the Sabbath it self be called a sign, Exod 31. yet it is explained ⟨p. 168⟩vers. 13. to be such a sign as to know hereby that the Lord our God sanctifies us; and in Ezek. 20.20. that we may know hereby that he is the Lord our God: for we know he is the Lord our God if he sanctifies us; and that we are his people, if we sanctify, or be sanctified of him; and in this respect it becomes not only a sign, but a mutual sign between God and us, and in no other respect (as Wallaeus would stretch it) and hence it is that whoever makes a conscience of sanctifying the Sabbath aright, shall not long want assurance of Gods love, by this blessed sign.