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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.
The Law of corrupt nature is that dim light left in the mind, and moral inclination left in the will in respect of some things contained in the Law of God, which the Apostle calls Conscience, Rom. 2.15. which natural conscience is nothing but the remnants and general principles of the law of pure nature, left in all men since the fall, which may be increased by more knowledge of the Law of God, or more diminished and defaced by the wickedness of man, Titus 1.15.
The Law of corrupt nature is that dimme light left in the minde, and morall inclination left in the will in respect of some things contained in the Law of God, which the Apostle cals Conscience, Rom. 2.15. which naturall conscience is nothing but the remnants and generall principles of the law of pure nature, left in all men since the fall, which may be increased by more knowledge of the Law of God, or more diminished and defaced by the wickednesse of man, Titus 1.15.
2. The Law of corrupt nature is taken either more largely, or strictly.
As it is taken more largely, so it comprehends all that which is agreeable and suitable to natural reason, and that from a natural innate equity in the thing, when it is made known, either by divine instruction or humane wisdom, although it be not immediately known by the light of nature, and thus many judicial laws are natural and moral (though positive) and of binding nature unto this day.