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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.
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.
As it is taken more largely, so it comprehends all that which is agreeable and sutable to naturall reason, and that from a naturall innate equity in the thing, when it is made known, either by divine instruction or humane wisdom, although it be not immediatly known by the light of nature, and thus many judiciall laws are naturall and morall (though positive) and of binding nature unto this day.
As it is taken strictly, so it comprehends no more but what nature immediately knows, or may know without external instruction, as parents to be honoured, mans life to be preserved.
As it is taken strictly, so it comprehends no more but what nature immediatly knows, or may know without externall instruction, as parents to be honoured, mans life to be preserved.
3. The Law of nature strictly taken, are either principles of nature, or conclusions from such principles.