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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 185.
What type should be affixed to the Sabbath, and of what it is thus typical and significative, is not a little difficult to find out, and being found out to prove it so to be; in handling the Change of the Sabbath I shall positively set down what I apprehend; only at the present it […] not be amiss to cast in a few negatives of what it is not; for mens wits in imagining types and allegories are very sinfully luxurant, unless God check them in such kind of divinity.
What type should be affixed to the Sabbath, and of what it is thus typicall and significative, is not a little difficult to finde out, and being found out to prove it so to be; in handling the Change of the Sabbath I shall positively set down what I apprehend; only at the present it 〈…〉 not be amisse to cast in a few negatives of what it is not; for mens wits in imagining types and allegories are very sinfully luxurant, unlesse God check them in such kinde of divinity.
Thesis 186.
The type lies not in the day of worship; for the greatest adversaries of the Sabbath place a morality therein; nor doth it lie in a seventh day; for though seven be made a number of perfection; yet what sober mind ever made a type of seven, more then of six or ten? Some have made the week a short summary and epitome and resemblance of that old prophecy of the worlds continuance for 6000. years (a thousand years being with God but as one day) and the seventh thousand the great day of rest and peace to the weary world; but this is a doubtful assertion at best, or if true, yet it is not therefore properly a type, or if it be, yet not such a type as was to cease at the coming of Christ (as our adversaries would have the Sabbath) but when the Antitype is come of that seven thousand years: If therefore it lies any where, it is in it as in a rest day, or a day of rest.