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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 200.
1It is no argument to prove the Sabbath to be ceremonial, because it is reckoned among ceremonials, viz. show-bread and sacrifices, as M. Primrose and Wallaeus urge it out of Mat. 12.1, 2, 3. for 1. upon the same ground fornication and eating of idolothytes are ceremonial, because they are ranked among ceremonials, viz. blood and things strangled, Act. 15.29.2. upon this ground the Sabbath hath no morality at all in it, no more then show-bread and sacrifices which were wholly ceremonial. 3. The Sabbath is in the same place reckoned among things which are moral, as pulling a sheep out of a pit upon the Sabbath day, an act of humanity; why may it not then be as well accounted moral? 4. One may as well argue that the not keeping company with Publicans and sinners was a ceremonial thing, because the Lord Jesus useth the same Proverbial speech, I will have mercy not sacrifice, Mat. 9.13. upon which he defends the lawfulness of pulling the ears of corn upon the Sabbath day, in this Mat. 12.15. the scope therefore of this place is not to show the nature of the Sabbath day, whether it be ceremonial or moral, but the lawfulness and morality of his act in eating the ears of corn upon this day; and thus the arguments of our Saviour are very strong and convicting to prove the morality of such an act, but no way to prove the ceremoniality of the Sabbath: for that is the scope of our Saviour, that mercy to the hungry is to be preferred before the Sacrifice of bodily resting upon the ⟨p. 177⟩