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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 187.
Some make the rest of the Sabbath, a type of Christs rest in the grave, and if it could be proved, I durst not oppose it; but it is but gratis dictum, affirmed by some godly learned, ⟨p. 169⟩who herein symbolize with Popish postillers, who please themselves much in this and such like allegorical significations of the Sabbaths rest: For if Christ did neither enter into the state of rest till his resurrection, nor into the place of rest until his ascension, how then could the rest of the Sabbath type out his rest in the grave, which was part of his most heavy labour of humiliation, Act. 2.24. and no part of his rest, unless it was in respect of cessation therein from actions of natural life? but the rest of one day is very unfit to resemble and type out the rest of three days in the grave; and why may not Christs rest from labour in his sleep be as well the antitype, as Christs rest from the actions of this life in his grave?
Some make the rest of the Sabbath, a type of Christs rest in the grave, and if it could be proved, I durst not oppose it; but it is but gratis dictum, affirmed by some godly learned, ⟨p. 169⟩who herein symbolize with Popish postillers, who please themselves much in this and such like allegoricall significations of the Sabbaths rest: For if Christ did neither enter into the state of rest till his resurrection, nor into the place of rest untill his ascension, how then could the rest of the Sabbath type out his rest in the grave, which was part of his most heavy labour of humiliation,