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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 8.
As therefore our blessed rest in the fruition of God at §8the end and period of our lives, is no ceremony, but a glorious privilege, and a moral duty, it being our closing with our utmost end to which we are called: so it cannot be that such a Law which calls and commands man in this life to return to the same rest for substance every Sabbath day, should be a ceremonial, but rather a Moral and perpetual Law: unless it should appear that this weekly Sabbath like the other annual Sabbath, hath been ordained and instituted principally for some ceremonious ends, rather than to be a part, and indeed the beginning of our rest to come; there being little difference between this and that to come, but only this, that here our rest is but begun, there it is perfected; here it is interrupted by our weekly labours, there it is continued, here we are led into our rest ⟨p. 4⟩by means and ordinances, but there we shall be possessed with it, without our need of any help from them; our God who is our rest, being then become unto us immediately All in All.
As therefore our blessed rest in the fruition of God at §8the end and period of our lives, is no ceremony, but a glorious privilege, and a morall duty, it being our closing with our utmost end to which we are called: so it cannot be that such a Law which cals and commands man in this life to returne to the same rest for substance every Sabbath day, should bee a ceremoniall, but rather a Morall and perpetuall Law: unlesse it should appeare that this weekly Sabbath like the other annuall Sabbath, hath been ordained and instituted principally for some ceremonious ends, rather than to be a part, and indeed the beginning of our rest to come; there being little difference between this and that to come, but onely this, that here our rest is but begun, there it is perfected; here it is interrupted by our weekly labours, there it is continued, here we are led into our rest