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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 193.
The Gentiles shall not be condemned only for what they §193did actually know, and did not practice; but also for what they did not actually know, yet might and should have known: The Gentiles did know that that some days were to be kept holy to God (saith M. Primrose) and they should have known the fittest proportion and most suitable frequency of such days, which the same author acknowledgeth to be ⟨p. 172⟩moral; therefore they should have known the seventh days Sabbath, and possibly might have known it if they had not held truth in righteousness, but made improvement thereof; for in this sense habenti dabitur, to him that hath shall be given, to wit, more of the same kind of light, whether natural, moral, or Evangelical; if common light in all these, more common light; if special light in them, they shall then have more special and saving light.
The Gentiles shall not be condemned only for what they §193did actually know, and did not practice; but also for what they did not actually know, yet might and should have known: The Gentiles did know that that some daies were to be kept holy to God (saith M. Primrose) and they should have known the fittest proportion and most suitable frequency of such daies, which the same author acknowledgeth to be ⟨p. 172⟩morall; therefore they should have known the seventh daies Sabbath, and possibly might have known it if they had not held truth in righteousnesse, but made improvement thereof; for in this sense habenti dabitur, to him that hath shall be given, to wit, more of the same kind of l•ght, whether naturall, morall, or Evangelicall; if common light in all these, more common light; if speciall light in them, they shall then have more speciall and saving light.